Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine <br />Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine <br />It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul <br />Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal <br />Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew danger is double pleasures are few <br />Where the rain never falls the sun never shines <br />It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine <br /> <br />Well it's many a man that I've seen in my day <br />(uh huh no laughin' during this song please it's bein' recorded) <br />Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine <br />A man will have lust for the lure of the mine <br />And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll <br />That my body would blacken and turn into coal <br />Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bones <br />Where it's dark as a dungeon...