Hi, Claire - I hope nobody minds that I combined the two threads on this song so all the versions would be together.
I can't find my copy of The Songs of the Gold Rush to double-check. I rarely use it, since most of the songs are also in Lingenfelter-Dwyer's Songs of the American West. The Lingenfelter-Dwyer book has the last part of the first verse listed as a chorus, like this:

Here you see old Tom Moore
A relic of bygone days.
A bummer too they call me now
But what care I for praise
For my heart is filled with woe
And I often grieve and pine,
For the days of old, the days of gold,
The days of '49.
CHORUS: For the days of old, the days of gold,
The days of '49.

Is that how it's shown in Songs of the Gold Rush? Seems to me it would be better to just repeat the last two lines of each verse.

Are you in California, too?
-Joe Offer in Colfax (in the Gold Country)-

joe@mudcat.org