Come listen you fellers so young and so fine

And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine

It′ll form as a habit and seep in your soulTill 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 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 seen in my day

Who lives just a laborer his young life away

Where the demons of death often come by surprise

One fall off a slate and you′re burried alive

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 digging my bones

It′s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

Where danger is double and pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine