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[Verse 1]
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Oh, come all you young fellers, so young and so fine
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And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
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It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
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Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
[Chorus]
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Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
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Danger is double and pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
[Verse 2]
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Well, it's many a man that I've known in my day
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That would live just to labor his whole life away
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Like a fiend with his dope, like a drunkard with his wine
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A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
[Verse 3]
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And I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
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That my body would blacken and turn into coal
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Then I'd look from the door of my heavenly home
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And pity the miner digging my bones
[Chorus]
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Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
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Danger is double and the pleasures are few
E A B
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
