Striking A Lead
Air: Dan Tucker 
Put's Original California Songster
Sacramento: Gardiner & Kirk, 1854
I took my shovel, pick and pan,
And went to mining like a man;
I picked up chunks that weighed a pound,
That lay like lemons on the ground.
Chorus:
Get out of the way, I'm mad as fury,
Get out of the way, I'm mad as fury,
Get out of the way, I'm mad as fury,
I'm from Pike, in old Missoury.
I allowed the d—l was to pay,
For miners came from every way,
With stakes and tools to take a claim,
But the lead run out—war'nt that a shame.
I laughed to see so many fools,
Come running with their mining tools,
When up a sign went, "Whisky cut,"
One bit per glass for good rot-gut.
I'm going home, I've made my pile,
I'm going through in cabin style;
I'll get my money and life insured,
For fear I'd get knocked overboard.
Score from the Library Of Congress
Score from the Lester S Levy Collection
MIDI file of "Old Dan Tucker" (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music)