only 1 verse to this,

The miners came in '49,
The whores in '51.
And then they got together,
And raised a native son.

There are many, many songs from the California gold rush. Try SONGS OF THE GOLD ROSH byRichard A Dwyer and Richard E. Lingenfelter------Univ. of California Press (Berkeley and LosAngeles)1964

The old ballad "The Sailor Boy" from England became "The Pinery Boy" in the lumber woods and then "The California Boy" in 1849 in the gold rush. Only the occupation and a few details of the different jobs were changed from song to song. Other than that, the songs are the same.

Now here's one from the Calif. goldrush that you good folks in Australia should enjoy.

"AUSTRALIA AND THE AMAZON"
by J.A.Stone (OLD PUT)

Farewell old California, I'm going far away,
Where gold is found more plenty, in larger lumps they say;
And climate, too, that can't beat, no matter where you go---
Australia, that's the land for me,where all have got a show.

CHORUS)
But I found that good time over,
For all was grief and pain,
And I should never, never make,
My ounce a day again.

I sold a claim that paid me just an half an ounce a day,
Got robbed at Sacramento and licked down at the bay,
I took the Monumental--for Sydney she was bound,
Her boilers bursted, she burnt up, and 500 were drowned.

We soon found we were lousy, which did us much surprise,
To hear the cabin gentry say, "They're lousy, blast their eyes!"
But when our journey ended and we had seen the mines,
Without a cent were shoved in jail, for taxes and for fines.

But give me California where all have equal rights,
Or the Amazon with all her snakes, I'd run the risk of bites;
Such mean, infernal thieving outlandish lies are told,
The devil will get the first poor whelp that does discover gold.