Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a 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 a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Well it´s many a man that I´ve seen in my day
(uh huh no laughin´ during this song please it´s bein´ recorded)
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
And pray when I´m dead and my ages shall roll
That my body would 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...