{"id":6428,"date":"2024-11-26T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6428"},"modified":"2024-11-26T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:51:13","slug":"farewell-to-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6428","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has been singing this for a few months now and I&#8217;ve received requests for the lyrics.\u00a0 It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Metsers\">Paul Metsers<\/a> which he wrote in 1969 in New Zealand, recording it in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shotover River, your gold it is waning<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s weeks since the color I&#8217;ve seen.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s no use just sitting and Lady Luck blaming<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll pack up and make the break clean.<\/p>\n<p>chorus:<br \/>\n<em><strong>Farewell to the gold that never I found,<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>For it&#8217;s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Down in the dark deep underground.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nearly two years since I left my old mother<br \/>\nFor adventure and gold by the pound.<br \/>\nWith Jimmy the prospector, he was another,<br \/>\nFor the hills of Otago was bound.<\/p>\n<p>Well we worked the Cardrona&#8217;s dry valley all over<br \/>\nOld Jimmy Williams and me.<br \/>\nThey were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover<br \/>\nSo we drifted down there just to see.<\/p>\n<p>We sluiced and we cradled for day after day<br \/>\nBarely making enough to get by;<br \/>\n&#8216;Til a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away<br \/>\nDuring six stormy days in July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has been singing this for a few months now and I&#8217;ve received requests for the lyrics.\u00a0 It is a Paul Metsers which he wrote in 1969 in New Zealand, recording it in 1978. &nbsp; Shotover River, your gold it is waning It&#8217;s weeks since the color I&#8217;ve seen. But it&#8217;s no use just sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6428\/revisions\/6429"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}