So Would I
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
If Eastern fops who paint their cheeks,
And wear their standing collars,
Would live and work with me two weeks
I'd give five hundred dollars.
For breakfast, ere we went to work,
We'd take a bit "for greens,"
For dinner we'd have beans and pork,
For supper, pork and beans.
If California was an eel,
A bullhead, shark or whale,
I'm satisfied, as I now feel,
That I would be the tail!