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A7 D  G  D


[Verse 1]
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Come listen you fellows so young and so fine
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Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
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It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
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'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
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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]
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D  D  G  D


[Versee 2]
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I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
A7           D           G         D
My body will blacken and turn into coal
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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