Drop D tuning;

low to high: D-A-D-G-B-E

Capo 2nd

Intro:

|     D     |     D     |     G     |     D     |

D                                                G                   A7

Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine.

D                                          G                 D

Seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mine.

                                     G                 A7

It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul,

             D                                         G                 D

Till the stream of you blood runs as black as the coal.

                  A7                         G                D

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew,

A7                       G                  D

danger is double; pleasures are few.

                                                G              A7

Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines,

      D                                  G                 D

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

Interlude:

|     D     |     D     |     G     |     D     |     D     |

D                                                      G             A7

Well, I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll,

             D                                G           D

that my body will blacken and turn into coal.

                                                       G            A7

Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home

       D                    G              D

and pity the miner diggin' my bones.

                  A7                         G                D

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew,

A7                       G                  D

danger is double; pleasures are few.

                                                G              A7

Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines,

      D                                  G                 D

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.