G'day all,

A friend (who perform a music show in Primary Schools) asked about American Gold Mining / Goldrush songs. We were surprised that we could think of nothing more than passing mentions in 'Clementine' and 'Sweet Betsy from Pike'. I Australia we have a great number of gold songs, both the stage songs of music-hall performers and songs of unknown miners from the 50 of so years in which individuals followed goldrushes and staked individual claims.

My friend thought he would like to do a well-known American song for comparison ... and found none in any corner of his repertoire.

Surely you Yanks sang - at some point in the proceedings ... you can't have spent every spare minute digging! Can anyone steer me to a few good gold rush songs?

Regards,

Bob Bolton

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