Intro: A
verse 1
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Come listen you fellows so young and so fine
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And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
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It'll form as a habit an seep in your soul
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Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal
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It's dark as a dungeon an damp as the dew
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Where troubles are doubled and pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines
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Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
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verse 2
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Well I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
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My body will blacken and turn into coal
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Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
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And pity the miners digging my bones
verse 3
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The midnight the morning or the middle of day
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Is the same to the miner who labors away.
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Where the demons of death often come by surprise,
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One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.
E E7 D A
Its dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
E E7 D A
Where danger is doubled and pleasures are few
A7 D E
Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines
A D A
Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine