(Rythme 3/4) |_ _ |_|_ _ | Cowboy young ladies so young and fine__ Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine__ It will 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 and damp as the dew Where Where danger is double and pleasures are few__ Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines__ It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines__ It's many a man I've known in my day__ Who lived just to labor his young life away__ Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine__ A man will have lust for the lure of the mine__ It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where Where danger is double and pleasures are few__ Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines__ It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines__ I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll__ My body will blacken and turn into coal__ Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home__ And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones__ It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where Where danger is double and pleasures are few__ Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines__ It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines__ It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines__