Steam Navigation Thieves
Air: Walk Ye In [History ob de World] 
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 only legal swindle which the people cannot sever,
Is the steamboat imposition on the Sacramento river,
It would surely be a blessing if the company would fail;
Then should any other organize, ride them on a rail.
Chorus:
Remember now! remember now! remember what I say;
Keep your hands upon your money, or they'll rob you on the way-
If you don't believe it, try it, either to or from the Bay.
- They have robbed a world of people, still there's none that say a word,
For if ever they were passengers, they'd be thrown overboard;
If they start an opposition, then eight out of every nine
Will support the imposition of the combination line.
Chorus:
- When you start from Sacramento and get stuck upon the sand,
All you have to do is jump ashore and foot it up by land.
If the devil ever gets them, he will Put them every soul,
In the lowest pits of purgatory, there to shovel coal.
Chorus:
Score from the Library Of Congress
Score from the Lester S Levy Collection
MIDI file of "History ob de World " (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music)