Song Lyrics Unknown - Old Settlers Song    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Old Settlers Song Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Old Settlers Song Theme ID: 5047 Album: N/A 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 filename[ OLDSETLR play.exe ROSINBOW MC ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Omie Wise, On A Chinese Honeymoon, On A Cold Winters Night, On A Monday Morning, On Ilkla Moor Baht Hat, On The Banks Of The Old Pedee, On Top Of Old Smoky, On Top Of Spaghetti, On Your Way Home, Once I Knew A Pretty Girl, Once I Went In Swimmin, Once More Alumbering Go, Once There Were Greenfields, One Bottle Of Pop, One Hour Mama, One Man Shall Mow My Meadow, One More Day, One Ship Drives East, Ones That Got Away, Only A Miner, Only Remembered, Onward Christian Soldiers, Open The Door Softly, Oranges And Lemons, Oregon Country, Oreilly And The Big Mcneill, Other Day I Met A Bear, Otto Wood The Bandit, Ould Triangle, Our Bill, Our Captain Calls, Our Chalet, Our House, Our Wedding Day, Outlandish Knight, Ovaltine, Over And Over Again, Over The Sea To Skye Variant, Over The Water To Charlie, Over There, Over Yonder Where The Lilies Grow, Oxford Tragedy Or The Millers Apprentice, Oyster Girl, Pace Egging Song, Pack Up Your Sorrows, Packrat Philosophy, Paddle Down The Rahway, Paddy And The Whale, Paddy Doyle, Paddy Lay Back, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy