Oh come all you fellas so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine

It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine

Like a fiend with his dope, a drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

And I pray when I’m dead my ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal

And I look from the door, of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine