Good Old Days of '50, '1, and '2, The

DESCRIPTION: "Tom Moore has sung of '49 And the pioneers who came" in 1849; the current singer will tell of those who turned up in 1850-1852. There were robbers like Joaquin; there were miners who came to get rich and ended poor. They opened the Golden Gate for you
AUTHOR: Words: J. Riley Mains (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest), but from nineteenth century broadsides
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes robbery gold moniker derivative mining death clothes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 560, "The Good Old Days of '50, '1, and '2" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Days of Forty-Nine" (source for song)
File: LDC560

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