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Thread #46751   Message #751821
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
20-Jul-02 - 09:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Gold Miners' Songs (American) 2
Subject: RE: GOLD MINERS' SONGS (American) 2
American Memory has a manuscript collection of Gold Rush songs, collected during the 1930s (in the Cowell Collection). Titles are:
1. JOE BOWERS
2. BETSY FROM PIKE
3. I'VE JUST GOT IN ACROSS THE PLAINS
4. WHEN I LEFT THE STATES FOR GOLD
5. WHEN THE GOLD FEVER RAGED I WAS DOING VERY WELL
6. COME ALL YE POOR MEN OF THE NORTH WHO ARE WORKING FOR YOUR LIVES
7. NOW IF YOU LISTEN TO THE TALE I WILL TELL
8. SINCE TIMES ARE SO HARD, I'LL TELL YOU, MY WIFE
9. OH LEAVE YE MINERS, LEAVE
10. OH MINERS, POOR MINERS, HUNGRY AND COLD
11. DON'T GO THERE, I PRAY, STAY AWAY IF YOU CAN

Some of these titles are first lines.
Also:
HO FOR CALIFORNIA (version)
THEN BLOW, BULLIES, BLOW (Banks of the Sacramento)
I CAME FROM SALEM CITY (tune Oh, Susanna)
THE LOUSY MINER (version)

As time permits, I will post some of these, or variations from songs previously posted or in the DT. These are the yield from the first 500 hits on the word 'miner'; many more probably still not looked at in this 'glory hole.'