Australia And The Amazon
Air: Emma Snow 
Put's Original California Songster
Sacramento: Gardiner & Kirk, 1854
Farewell, old California, I'm going far away,
Where gold is found more plenty, in larger lumps they say;
And climate, too, that can't be beat, no matter where you go—
Australia, that's the land for me, where all have got a show.
Chorus:
But I found that good time over,
For all was grief and pain,
And I should never, never make
My ounce a day again.
I sold a claim that paid me just half an ounce a day,
Got robbed at Sacramento, and licked down at the Bay;
I took the Monumental, for Sydney she was bound
Her boilers bursted, she burnt up, and five hundred were drowned.
But I found, etc.
We soon found we were lousy, which did us much surprise.
To hear the cabin gentry say, "They're lousy, blast their eyes!"
But when our journey ended, and we had seen the mines,
Without a cent were shoved in jail, for taxes and for fines.
But I found, etc.
But give me California, where all have equal rights,
Or the Amazon with all her snakes, I'd run the risk of bites;
Such mean, infernal, theiving, outlandish lies are told;
The d——l will get the next poor whelp that does discover gold.
But I found, etc.
Score from theLibrary of Congress
MIDI file of "Emma Snow " (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music)