Tom: D
D D G A7
A7 D G D
[Verse 1]
D G A7
Come listen you fellows so young and so fine
A7 D G D
Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
D G A7
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
A7 D G D
'Till the stream of your life blood is as black as the coal
[Chorus]
D A7 D
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
D A7 D
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
D D7 G A A7
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
A7 D G D
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
[Instrumental]
D D G A7
D D G D
[Versee 2]
D G A7
I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
A7 D G D
My body will blacken and turn into coal
D G A7
Then I'll look from the door from my heavenly home
A7 D G D
And pity the miner a-digging my bones
[Verse 3]
D G A7
It's a-many a man I've known in my day
A7 D G D
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
D G A7
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
A7 D G D
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
[Chorus]
D A7 D
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
D A7 D
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
D D7 G A7
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
A7 D G D
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
