Off to the Diggings

DESCRIPTION: "Some who at a spade would kick Or turn their nose up at a pick... They're off noo to the diggin's." Deacons, debtors, creditors, women, the mayor all go seeking gold. The singer advises all these new miners to listen to the old hands
AUTHOR: some words by "J. B. Kaikorai" (pseudonym, but we don't know whose)
EARLIEST DATE: 2010 (Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
KEYWORDS: mining humorous clergy
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 48, "Off to the Diggings" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Col2048

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