O If I Was at Home Again

DESCRIPTION: "In Mt. Pleasant I once did live and had a happy home"; he was "O happy Johnny P. Contented Johnny P. O if I was at home again, How happy I would be." But the talk of gold caused him to leave home and business and is wretched and poor in the goldfields
AUTHOR: Words: John P. Grantham (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1849 (Diary of Palmer C. Tiffany, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: home travel gold hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 41, "O If I Was at Home Again" (1 text, tune referenced)
NOTES [19 words]: This may well be a gold miner's genuine personal complaint, but I have no evidence at all that it is traditional. - RBW
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