[Intro]
[Verse]
Come listen you fellers, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune, in the dark, dreary mines
Itâll form as a habit, and seep in your soul
âTill the stream of your blood, is as black as the coal
[Chorus]
Itâs 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
Itâs dark as a dungeon, way down in the mines
[Post-Chorus]
[Verse]
Itâs many a man, I have known in my day
Who live just to labor, his young life away
Where the demons of death often come by surprise
One fall of the slate, and youâre buried alive
I hope when Iâm gone, and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken, and turn into coal
Then I look from the door, of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digginâ my bone
[Chorus]
Itâs 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
Itâs dark as a dungeon, way down in the mines
