[Verse 1]
Come all you young feller's, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine
It will form like a habit and seep in your soul
Until the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are 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

[Verse 2]
There is many a man I have seen in my day
Who lived just to labour his whole life away
Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal
I will look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner a' digging my bones