One Year, Three Months, A Week To The Day
Point the peacemakers in the sky boys
And shootem' off six in a row
Climb down off your saddles
Hit the bar and gamble all your dough
Well the girls here are pretty and the whiskey is cheap
I hit a deep vein on my stake a mile up the creek
Minstrel that sugar foot
Tomorrow we're all goin' home
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain't nothin' but a waste of mules and money
I don't think it was worth what we struck to stay
It's been one year and three months, a week to the day
Take a hot bath and a shave
So the youngins' can remember who you are
Buy some lace and some perfume
For the woman who's waited this far
Well it's twenty-five hundred miles to the Missouri line
On a wagon out of Fresno that's a real long time
Powder up the barrels
Cause I'm travelin' with a trunk full of gold
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain't nothin' but a waste of mules and money
I don't think it was worth what we struck to stay
It's been one year and three months a week to the day
And shootem' off six in a row
Climb down off your saddles
Hit the bar and gamble all your dough
Well the girls here are pretty and the whiskey is cheap
I hit a deep vein on my stake a mile up the creek
Minstrel that sugar foot
Tomorrow we're all goin' home
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain't nothin' but a waste of mules and money
I don't think it was worth what we struck to stay
It's been one year and three months, a week to the day
Take a hot bath and a shave
So the youngins' can remember who you are
Buy some lace and some perfume
For the woman who's waited this far
Well it's twenty-five hundred miles to the Missouri line
On a wagon out of Fresno that's a real long time
Powder up the barrels
Cause I'm travelin' with a trunk full of gold
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain't nothin' but a waste of mules and money
I don't think it was worth what we struck to stay
It's been one year and three months a week to the day
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Writer(s): Jesse Warren
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