California As It Is

DESCRIPTION: "I've been to California and I haven't got a dime, I've lost my health, my strength, my hope, and I have lost my time." All he has left are spade and pick -- and a cold. The singer regrets all the things he left behind. Don't go to California.
AUTHOR: Words: Thaddeus W. Meighan (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1849 (apparently printed as a broadside, based on Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: gold mining hardtimes travel warning
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 100-102, "California As It Is" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jeanette and Jeannot" (tune) and references there
File: LDC100

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