 | Vaughan Kester - 1905 - 510 strani
...chorus of men's voices could be heard; then nearer at hand a clear tenor voice took up the words. "/ soon shall be in 'Frisco, And then I'll look around, And when I see the gold lumps there, I'll pick 'em off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full... | |
 | Vaughan Kester - 1905 - 506 strani
...voices could be heard; then nearer at hand a clear tenor voice took up the words. "/ soon shall be tit 'Frisco, And then I'll look around, And when I see the gold lumps there, I'll fick 'em off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains clean, my knyt, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1914 - 500 strani
...headed for California, well-nigh everybody was ready to whistle or to sing the tune of the time: " I soon shall be in Frisco, And then I'll look around;...California, That's the land for me: I'm bound for San Francisco, With my washbowl on my knee." There were tragic happenings also, many of them. Cholera... | |
 | 1904 - 424 strani
...Dear brothers, don't you cry ! — Chorus. I soon shall be in Frisco, And there I'll look all round, And when I see the Gold lumps there I'll pick them off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll dn>in the rivers dry, A pocketful of rocks bring home... | |
 | George Henry Tinkham - 1915 - 400 strani
...of the favorite songs among a certain class of pioneers, and one verse read as follows: "I'll soon be in 'Frisco, And then I'll look around. And when I see the gold lumps there I'll pick 'em off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1920 - 354 strani
...'twere something still to be Kings even in captivity. — JOAQUIN MILLER. I. A TRAGEDY OF THE TRAIL "I soon shall be in 'Frisco, And then I'll look around, And when I see the gold lumps there I'll pick 'em off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode - 1924 - 414 strani
...far away, Dear brothers, don't you cry. I soon shall be in Francisco, And then I'll look all round, And when I see the gold lumps there, I'll pick them off the ground. "I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full of rocks bring... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1925 - 532 strani
...And then some would have sung these words : "I'll soon be in Francisco And then I'll look all 'round And when I see the gold lumps there I'll pick them off the ground. "I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full of rocks bring... | |
 | Arnold Skolnick - 1997 - 132 strani
...NAHL with FREDERICK A. WENDEROTH, Miners in the Sierras, 1851-52, Oil on canvas, 54'/4 x 67 inches 1 soon shall be in Frisco, And then I'll look around;...O California That's the land for me: I'm bound for San Francisco, With my washbowl on my knee. Song from the Gold Rush era WILLIAM MclLVAINE. Panning... | |
 | Malcolm J. Rohrbough - 2023 - 394 strani
...popular of the early songs. Among its verses was the declaration: I soon shall be in Frisco. And there I'll look around, And when I see the Gold lumps there I'll pick them off the ground. I'll sctape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocketful of rocks brmg home... | |
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And when I see the gold lumps there, I'll pick them off the ground. "I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full of rocks bring home, So brothers, don't you cry! Oh, California ! That's the land for me, I'm going... 
