Neil Young - After The Gold Rush/Heart of Gold - Live

WEDNESDAY CLUB

GOLD IN MY POCKET

GOLD HE SCREAMED!

 

NEIL YOUNG - After The Goldrush (live)

 

Weird, I woke up one morning thinking about the Gold Rush and kept thinking about it all day. A quick look at Wikipedia and I came up with this.

I wonder what Wordsworth and Rabbie did before Wikipedia?.  Eat your heart out Neil Young!

MOTHER LODE 

Gold he screamed 

It's gold I've found

Stutter's Mill in California 

news went fast from West to East

across both the greatest oceans

Chorus

300,000 came to Stutter's Mill

many came in covered wagons

came by ship, on foot or rode

they shared their biggest dream

to find that mother lode

The biggest nuggets

that hands can pick

lying there to make you rich

 get back safe and stake your claim 

you will kill or die to get there

 Death and violence

for all these 49ners

1 in 10 didn't make it through 

why were the Indians singled out? 

vigilantes they just took them

makeshift saloons

the girls they came

law is whiskey and the gun

she will comfort your lonely heart

before all your gold she'll steal

300,000 came to Stutter's Mill 

many came in covered wagons 

came by ship, on foot or rode 

they shared their biggest dream

to find that mother lode

 

NEIL YOUNG - Heart of Gold (Live)