Artist: Jules Allen
Author: Charles Bensell
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1929
Song about the gold rush in California in 1849 ("In the days of old when we dug up the gold"). Oldest source: 1872 by Emerson's Minstrels in San Francisco.
Covers:
Yankee John Galusha [Frank Warner recording in New York State; Alan Lomax & Frank Warner share credits]
Bob Dylan [on Self Portrait]
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