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Thread #59756   Message #2160050
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
29-Sep-07 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put)
Subject: RE: ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put)
Joe, I have "Put's Golden Songster" in a facsimile; the air cited as "I get in a weaving way," but no score.
The words you post are correct, less a semicolon or two and the tilde in señorita. Dwyer and Lingenfelter, "The Songs of the Gold Rush," 1965, Univ. California Press, p. 87, give the correct eight verses.
The song is reproduced in Lingenfelter and Dwyer, 1968, "Songs of the American west," p. 135, again without music.

The two verses I added to the post by Dixon were from Lomax and Lomax, 1938, title as cited. I looked in John A. Lomax, 1925 printing, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and found it on pp. 409-410, no notes. I do not have the 1910 or 1916 printings, but biblios. indicate that it was added in the revision of 1916.

I haven't found the tune.