Farewell to the Gold-Gordon Bok/Ann Mayo Muir/Ed Trickett

[ti:Farewell to the Gold] [ar:Gordon Bok] [al:All Shall Be Well Again] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Farewell to the Gold - Gordon Bok/Ann Mayo Muir/Ed Trickett [00:23.85]Shotover river your gold it is waning [00:29.09] [00:29.60]It's weeks since the colour I've seen [00:35.41]No use just sitting [00:38.08]And Lady Luck blaming [00:41.06]I'll pack up and make the break clean [00:45.66] [00:46.53]Farewell to the gold that never I found [00:52.32]Goodbye to the nuggets [00:55.55]That somewhere abound [00:58.24]For it's only when dreaming [01:01.52]That I see you gleaming [01:04.29]Down in the dark deep underground [01:09.12] [01:10.13]It's nearly two years since [01:12.83]I left my old mother [01:15.91]For adventure and gold by the pound [01:21.89]With Jimmy the prospector he was another [01:27.46]For the hills of Otago was bound [01:32.50] [01:33.34]Farewell to the gold that never I found [01:39.11]Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound [01:45.29]For it's only when dreaming [01:48.69]That I see you gleaming [01:51.33]Down in the dark deep underground [01:56.39] [01:57.59]We serched the Cardrona's dry valley all over [02:03.76]Old Jimmy Williams and me [02:09.17]They were panning good [02:10.72]Dirt on the winding Shotover [02:14.75]So we down there just for to see [02:20.89]Farewell to the gold that never I found [02:26.81]Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound [02:32.83]For it's only when dreaming [02:36.17]That I see you gleaming [02:38.80]Down in the dark deep underground [02:43.84] [02:44.92]We sluiced and we cradled for day after day [02:50.51]Making hardly enough to get by [02:56.82]When a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away [03:02.17]During six stormy days in July [03:07.53] [03:08.12]Farewell to the gold that never I found [03:13.85]Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound [03:19.83]For it's only when dreaming [03:23.15]That I see you gleaming [03:25.89]Down in the dark deep underground [03:31.03] [03:31.87]Farewell to the gold that never I found [03:37.56]Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound [03:43.60]For it's only when dreaming [03:46.88]That I see you gleaming [03:49.54]Down in the dark deep underground