Lousy Miner, The

DESCRIPTION: "It's four long years since I reached this land In search of gold among the rocks and sand, And yet I'm poor, when the truth is told... I'm a lousy miner In search of shining gold." Tells how the miner lives hard while his girlfriend forgets him
AUTHOR: John A. Stone ("Old Put") ?
EARLIEST DATE: 1855 (Put's Original California Songster)
KEYWORDS: mining work separation gold
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, p. 107, "(The Lousy Miner)" (1 text found under "Sweet Betsy from Pike")
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 175, "The Lousy Miner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfAmericanFolklore, pp. 863-864, "Lousy Miner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 98-99, "The Lousy Miner" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, LOUSMINR
Roud #4755
NOTES [49 words]: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest lists the melody of this as "Dark-eyed Sailor." They don't say which song of that title they mean, but it appears they took their melody from one of Flanders's versions of "The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor)" [Laws N35] - RBW
File: San107

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