Come listen you fellows
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark dreary mine
It will form as a habit
And seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood is
As black as the coal
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines
It's many a man
I've known in my day
Who lived just to labor
His young life away
Like a fiend with his dope
And a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust
For the lure of the mine
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines
I hope when I'm gone
And the ages shall roll
My body will blacken
And turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door
Of my heavenly home
And pity the miner
A-digging my bones
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines