Key: A major
Verse 1
G
C
G
Come an d listen, you fellas,
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D
so young and so fine
Gm
G
Seek not your fortune
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G
in the dark, dreary mind
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D
It'll form as a habit, seep in your soul
C
G
runs as black as the coal
C
G
and damp as the dew
C
G
and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
C
D
and the sun never shines
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G
C
G
way down in the mine
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D
It's a many a man I've seen in my day
G
C
Who lives just to lay his whole life away
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D
or a drunkard is blind
Gm
G
The man will have lust
C
G
for the lure of the mind
C
G
and damp as the deep
C
G
and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
C
D
and the sun never shines,
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G
C
D
G
C
way down in the mine.
G
Oh, the midnight or the morning
D
G
Is the same to the miner
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G
who's digging away
Where the demons of death
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D
often come by surprise
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G
then you're buried alive
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G
damp as a dew,
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G
and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls
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D
and the sun never shines.
C
G
C
G
way down in the mines
Well, I hope when I'm gone
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D
and the ages shall roll
G
C
G
My body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door
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D
of my heavenly home
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G
a -diggin' my bones
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G
and damp as a dune
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G
and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
C
D
and the sun never shines
C
G
way down in the mine
G
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