Come and listen you fellows

So young and do fine

And seek not your fortune

In the dark, dreary mines

It will form as a habit

Seep in your soul

'til the blood in your veins

Runs as black as the coal



There's many a man

That i've known in my day

Who lived just to labor

His whole 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

Damp as the dew

The danger is double

And the pleasures are few



Where the rain never falls

Where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine



I hope when i'm gone

And the ages shall roll

My body will blacken

And turn into coal



Then i'll look out the door

Of my heavenly home

And i'll pity the miners

A-diggin' my bones



It's dark as a dungeon

Damp as the dew

The danger is double

And the pleasures are few



Where the rain never falls

Where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine



Where the rain never falls

Where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine