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