He Ought To Know
Air: Twilight Dews
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
- The man who never saw our land
Knows more than we do here;
So hear him talk one moment, and
I'll treat to lager beer.
- He'd have a different mining rig
From people now-a-days;
As others do he would not dig!
But hear him what he says:
- "I've heard them say t'was all in luck,
But that's all very fine;
I'm satisfied- with diggings struck-
They don't know how to mine.
- "At first I'd try some small ravine,
Take out an ounce a day.
I'd show them there I weren't as green
As some of them today.
- "I know there's spots and places round
Which never have been dug,
And was I there they'd soon be found
And likewise many a slug!
- "I'd eat no beans, but pies and cake,
Avoid those thundering fools;
And should I go, I'd with me take
A kit of mining tools.
- "I would not hang around saloons,
Nor wear those woolen shirts,
But 'galluses' with pantaloons,
Instead of saddle girts.
- If people there were civilized,
I'd go and stop awhile;
And he who'd by me be advised,
Like me would make a pile!
Score from the Library Of Congress
Score from the Lester S Levy Collection