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Thread #59756   Message #2159969
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
29-Sep-07 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put)
Subject: ADD Verses: The Happy Miner
The lyrics posted by Jim Dixon leave out verses five and six:

The dark-eyed señoritas are very fond of me,
You ought to see us throw ourselves when we get on a spree;
We are as saucy as a clipper ship dashing round the Horn;
Head and tail up, like a steer rushing through the corn.

I've never changed my fancy shirt, the one I wore away,
Until it got so rotten I finally had to say:
"Farewell, old standing collar, in all thy pride of starch.
I've worn thee from December till the seventeenth day of March."

p. 383-384, John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, 1938, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," Revised and Enlarged, The Macmillan Co.,
NY.
No information provided.

Probably from one of the California Songsters.