Gold Digger's Lament, The

DESCRIPTION: "I am going far away from my creditors just now, I ain't got the tin to pay 'em, and they're kicking up a row." He is fleeing because all the talk about gold was false. He doesn't know where he would go. If he were President, there would be no debts
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1889 (Hunter, Reminiscences of an Old Timer, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: gold hardtimes travel escape
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 91, "The Gold Digger's Lament" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #779, p. 52, "The Gold Digger's Lament" (3 references)
Dime-Song-Book #3/72, p. 48 and #3/62, p. 55, "The Gold-Digger's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #38052
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jeanette and Jeannot" (tune) and references there
File: LDC091

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography