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Lyrics for Old Settlers Song by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Old Settlers Song | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 178 | | | | Lyrics: | Old Settler's Song
(Acres of Clams)
I've traveled all over this
country
Prospecting and digging for gold
I've tunneled, hydraulicked and cradled
And
I have been frequently sold
For each man who got rich by mining
Perceiving that
hundreds grew poor
I made up my mind to try farming
The only pursuit that was
sure
So, rolling my grub in my blanket
I left all my tools on the ground
I
started one morning to shank it
For the country they call Puget Sound
Arriving flat
broke in midwinter
I found it enveloped in fog
And covered all over with timber
Thick
as hair on the back of a dog
When I looked on the prospects so gloomy
The tears
trickled over my face
And I thought that my travels had brought me
To the end of the
jumping-off place
I staked me a claim in the forest
And sat myself down to hard
toil
For two years I chopped and I struggled
But I never got down to the soil
I
tried to get out of the country
But poverty forced me to stay
Until I became an old
settler
Then nothing could drive me away
And now that I'm used to the climate
I
think that if a man ever found
A place to live easy and happy
That Eden is on Puget
Sound
No longer the slave of ambition
I laugh at the world and its shams
As I
think of my pleasant condition
Surrounded by acres of clams
@pioneer
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