The miners' version is on Riverside Records' "Gold Rush Songs" by Pat Foster and Dick Weissman, recorded 1958. Well, I pitched my tent on this camp ground, few days, few days - Gave old Satan another round, and I am going home - Chorus: I can't stay in these digging, few days, few days, No, I can't stay in these diggings, and I am going home. Although I like the diggings here, I won't stay here another year. These banking thieves I will not trust, But with me take my little dust. Three years I've labored in the ground, And now at last I'm homeward bound. I know there are more verses but I can't remember them just now.
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