Come and listen, you feller,
so young and so fine,
and seek not your fortune
in dark dreary pines.
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
Where the dangers are doubled
and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon,
way down in mine
There's many a man
I've known in my day
Who lives labor his whole life away,
Like a fiend with his dope,
and a drunkard his wine.
A man will have lust
for the mirror of the mind
Where it's dark as a dungeon
and as the dew
Where the dangers are double
and the pleasures are few
Where rain never falls,
and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon,
way down in the mine
I hope when I'm gone
and the ages shall roll
My body would blacken and turn into gold
And I'll look from the door
of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bone
Where it's dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew,
where the dangers are doubled,
and the pleasures are few,
where rain never falls,
and the sun never shines.
It's dark as a dungeon
way down in the mine
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