Lyrics:
Come on, you young fellasSo young and so fineAnd seek not your fortuneIn the dark, dreary minesIt'll form as a habitSeep in your soulTill the blood of your veins runsAs black as the coalIt's dark as a dungeonDamp as the dewWhere the dangers are manyThe pleasures are fewWhere the rain never fallsAnd the sun never shinesIt's dark as a dungeonWay down in the mineIt's many a manI've seen in my dayWho lived just a labourHis whole life awayLike a fiend with his dopeOr a drunkard his wineA man must have lust forThe lure of the mineIt's dark as a dungeonDamp as the dewWhere the dangers are manyThe pleasures are fewWhere the rain never fallsAnd the sun never shinesIt's dark as a dungeonWay down in the mineWell, I hope when I'm goneAnd the ages do rollMy body will blackenAnd form into coalI'll look down from the doorOf my heavenly homeAnd pity the minersA diggin' my bonesIt's dark as a dungeonDamp as the dewWhere the dangers are manyThe pleasures are fewWhere the rain never fallsAnd the sun never shinesIt's dark as a dungeonWay down in the mineIt's dark as a dungeonWay down in the mine