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Acknowledgements

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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:

  3. "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.

  4. "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.

  5. "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!

  6. "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.

  7. "I would not hang around saloons,
    Nor wear those woolen shirts,
    But 'galluses' with pantaloons,
    Instead of saddle girts.

  8. 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