Lyr Add: Then Hurrah for Home

Subject: Lyr Add: THEN HURRAH FOR HOME!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 06:08 PM

Lyr. Add: Then Hurrah For Home
John A Stone, 1857

I'm going home to stop awhile;
Farewell! Farewell!
Before I go we'll take a smile,
The hurrah for home!
These banking thieves I will not trust,
Farewell! Farewell!
But with me take my little dust,
Then hurrah for home!

Oh, won't I have some high old times,
Farewell! Farewell!
Telling yarns about the mines?
Then hurrah for home!
I'll leave this world of rags and dirt,
Farewell! Farewell!
And wear a plug and ruffle shirt!
Then hurrah for home!

I'll put on airs like Harry Meiggs,
Farewell! Farewell!
Live on oysters, ham and eggs,
Then hurrah for home!
I'll sink enough to pay my fare,
Farewell! Farewell!
Return when tired of staying there,
Then hurrah for home!

Although I like the diggings,
Farewell! Farewell!
Although I like the diggings,
I'm going to leave!
For I can't always be with you,
Farewell! Farewell!
For I can't always be with you,
Then hurrah for home!
(Repeat)

"Honest" Harry Meiggs established a bank in San Francisco in the early 1850s, but soon built a wharf for landing lumber. In 1854, he got into financial trouble and departed with his family for Chile. He built bridges in Peru, and became well-off once more. He hired an agent and sent him to San Francisco, with orders to pay off all his creditors, with interest.

Page 60, without music but "A Few Days" noted as the air, 1858, "Put's Golden Songster, containing the largest and most popular collection of California songs ever published."
"By the author of Put's Original California Songster" (John A. Stone). San Francisco, D. E. Appleton & Co.
I have been told that this song also appeared in "Put's Mountain Songster," 1857, and "Put's Golden Songster No. 2," 1858.
Reprinted in Dwyer and Lingenfelter, 1965, "The Songs of the Gold Rush," p. 175-176, with music and chords.

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