Music of the Gold Rush & Civil war

And Thus He Spoke
Air: The Fatal Separation
Put's Golden Songster: containing the largest and most popular collection of California songs ever published by John A Stone
San Francisco : D.E. Appleton & Co., 1858

1. One stormy night, when winds blew wild
   Around his cabin door,
   A miner sat on a three legg'd stool-
   The reason, it had not four.
   
   CHORUS
   And thus he spoke, while from his eye
   A tear rolled down his cheek-
   "Oh, give me back my little home,
   For that is all I seek."
   
   
2. "I once possessed a cheerful heart,
   A poor though happy home,
   Until misfortune did us part,
   And doomed me here to roam."
   
   CHORUS- And thus he spoke, &c.
   
   
3. "The cry of gold gave life to life,
   A ray of hope appeared;
   I started in the hellish strife,
   And found it as I feared."
   
   CHORUS- And thus he spoke, &c.
   
   
4. The wind is howling worse and worse-
   I know not what it means,
   Nor do I care a single curse
   For I have burned my beans!"
   
   CHORUS- And thus he spoke, &c.