Come listen you fellers so young and so fine
And 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 is as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew
Where dangers are double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
[ harmonica ]
I hope when I'm gone 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 a digging my bones

It's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew...
Yes it's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine