[Verse]
The tough sturdy miner works hard for his pay,
He works through the night and most of the day,
But there's no one works harder way down in the ground,
Than Billy the pit horse, a slave to the mines.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse]
Therе's many a pretty girl I've known in my life,
Who livеs just to be a coal miner's wife,
A coal miner's wife must be sturdy and strong,
And should never worry when things do go wrong.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse]
I hope when I die and the ages shall roll,
My body will blacken and turn into coal,
And then I'll look down from my heavenly home,
And pity the miners a digging my bones.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse]
So come all ye young fellas, your fortune you seek,
Don't bury yourselves in the mine so deep,
Ah, for it forms as a habbit and seeps in your soul,
Till the blood in your veins runs as the black as the coal.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse]
Ah, there's a many a man that I've seen in my day,
Who looked just to labour his whole life away,
Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse]
The tough sturdy miner works hard for his pay,
He works through the night and most of the day,
But there's no one works harder way down in the ground,
Than Billy the pit horse, a slave to the mines.

[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.


[Chorus]
It's dark as a dungeon, it's damp as the dew,
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.