Lyrics Gold Rush Brides.lrc 10,000 Maniacs
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[ar: 10,000 Maniacs]
[al: MTV Unplugged]
[ti: Gold Rush Brides]
[length: 04:12]
[00:01.75]”While the young folks were having their good times some of
[00:03.50]The mothers were giving birth to their babies. three babies were
[00:05.36]Born in our company that summer. my cousin, emily, gave birth to
[00:11.60]A son in utah, forty miles north of the great salt lake one
[00:18.09]Morning. but the next morning she travelled on ’til noon when a
[00:19.87]Stop was made and another child was born, this time susan
[00:24.38]Mollmeyer. and gave the baby the name alice nevada.”
[00:28.67]Taken from _women’s diaries of the westward jouney_
[00:30.42]By lillian schlissel
[00:39.42]Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads.
[00:49.37]Pass the lone church spire. pass the talking wire from where to who
[00:55.66]Knows?
[01:04.64]There’s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western
[01:12.86]Plains. where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over
[01:22.81]Spaces. the land was free and the price was right.
[01:40.86]Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly. such
[01:50.88]Power in her hand as she hails the wagon man’s family. i see indians
[02:00.76]That
[02:02.55]Crawl through this mural that recalls our history.
[02:08.83]Who were the homestead wives? who were the gold rush brides? does
[02:15.14]Anybody know? do their works survive their yellow fever lives in the
[02:23.20]Pages
[02:25.08]They wrote? the land was free, yet it cost their lives.
[02:44.04]In miner’s lust for gold, a family’s house was bought and sold, piece
[02:49.49]By piece. a widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so
[02:58.43]Painfully.
[03:02.98]In letters mailed back home her eastern sisters they would moan as
[03:08.31]They
[03:09.26]Would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief.
[04:07.15]Year of Release: 1992