The Miner's Dream
Air: Nelly Bly 
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 miner when he goes to sleep, soon begins to snore;
Dreams about his friends at home, whom he may see no more;
A lovely wife or sister dear he may have left behind;
Perhaps a father old and gray, a mother good and kind.
Chorus:
Now will you, say will you, listen while I sing
A song that's called the miner's dream?
'Twill joy and comfort bring.
- His boyhood years return again, his heart is filled with joy-
Is rolling hoops or playing ball as when he was a boy.
'Tis winter time- he's skating now, of which he was so fond;
'Tis summer now- he's swimming in the old familiar pond!
Chorus:
- His boyhood days are past and gone, for now he is a man-
Is going to California to try the pick and pan;
Bright visions now of happiness are dancing o'er his mind;
Disturb him not, but let him dream so long as he's inclined.
Chorus:
- His mind is home among the fields of wheat and yellow corn-
Sits down beneath an apple tree, all shady in the morn;
But morning comes- and at his door a neighbor gently knocks;
He wakes and finds himself in bed among the hills and rocks.
Chorus:
Score from Library of Congress
Score from Lester S. Levy Collection
MIDI file of "Nelly Bly " (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music.)