Letras
Come and listen you fellas, so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in the 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 and damp as the dew
Where the danger is 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 mine
It's a-many a man I've seen in my day
Who lives just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the danger is 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 mine
Oh the midnight or the morning or the middle of day
It's the same to the miner who's digging away
Where the demons of death often come by surprise
One fall of the slate then you're buried alive
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
Well I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And I'll pity the miner a-digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine