Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine

Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine

It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul

Till 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 the rain never falls, the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine



Well, I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll

That my body will blacken and turn into coal

Then I'll 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 and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Writer : TRAVIS, MERLE
Copyright : Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.