Standard (EADGBE)

Oh come all you young fellers, so young and so fine, seek not your

fortune in the dark dreary mind. It'll form as a habit and seep in your

soul, till the stream of you blood runs as black as the coal. Where it's

dark as the dungeon, damp as the dew. Danger is double, pleasures are few,

where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines, it's dark as the

dungeon way down in the mine. Like a man with his dope, like a drunkard with

his wife, a man will have lust for the lure of the mine. And I'll pray when

I'm dead, and my ages shall roll, that my body would blacken and turn into

coal. And I'd look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner

diggin my bones. Where it's dark as the dungeon, damp as the dew. Dangers

are double, pleasures are few, where the rain never falls, the sun never

shines, it's dark as the dungeon way down in the mine.