Show the returned californians Californi ais song AIR OH SUSANNAH I 1 I 1 ive been to calibo californi Cali forny Y with my washbowl wash bowl on an my knee knea ive seen the tallest elephant that ever mortal see he measures from one tip to tip about a million feet and from the other tip tap to tip the critter cant be beat beal ob Califor california iiii I 1 youre youlie not the land for ma ive been and left the washbowl wash bowl I 1 had upon my knee he ate the lizas cargo and then he wanted more he ate a man for dinner one day he went ashore 1 ile he tried to eat another but the fellens fel leis coattails coat tails flew andl and he never stopped topped ri to tell A quarter what he knew the folks in californi Cali Calif forny omy I 1 they drink a dreadful sight you see a feller very loose and then you see one tight and the loose one shoots the tight one and then they write the folks that a grizzly bear devoured him I 1 but itis it Is a bear faced hoax I 1 theres the plenty ol 01 s people raises ned and lots of wisp m goin f theres forty thousand fiddle men I 1 A bootin and a blowin the loafers drink and gamble and they dont donat do bothin more and somehow disappointed cause all their hopes are ore ive seen a right smart chance of hills As full as they could hold of pecks and pecks of silver and quartz and quartz quarto of gold 1 filled my washbowl wash bowl with lem em but a sydney chap from prison took the bowl and shot at me because the claim chim was ive scraped the mountains clears clear my boys and drained them rivers dry my pockets full enough of rocks the gold dusts in my eye dye 1 i it aint so hard to raise the dust it if a feller ll only blow I 1 atis windy business blowin is As whales and blackfish black fish fisa know r cant begin to count my gold but a feller did that knows it took a heap ot of figgers figgen andl and I 1 think they all was 0 them nem wi is pretty figuers fig sers but then it seems to toller foller that when a figgers circular its so eternal holler I 1 11 1 I 1 jumped off tb the eLza iza ship and traveled trgve lid river I 1 caught the ague and the shakes the shakes means when you shiver I 1 shook the teeth from out ont my mv head but then I 1 need em I 1 didn dian have delit cp filled with gold and so I 1 feed em and now im gwine to dig again and do it with a will but its gwine to be dry digging in another kind of hierl ill dig the lumps and wash em well and in the course of I 1 know some da day im bound to find some gold in every tater imater well rest content with quiet lot in spite of lots in frisky I 1 and while we raise the ta terses theaoa Theo the fools oa may drink the whisky I 1 then heres to californi Cali forny I 1 I 1 and luck to all who try I 1 I 1 and since were safe at home again why brothers dont you cry |