Lyrics Gold Rush Brides (Live on MTV Unplugged).lrc 10,000 Maniacs
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[ar: 10,000 Maniacs]
[al: MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition) (Live)]
[ti: Gold Rush Brides (Live on MTV Unplugged)]
[length: 04:11]
[00:00.05]”while the young folks were having their good times some of
[00:03.08]The mothers were giving birth to their babies. three babies were
[00:06.32]Born in our company that summer. my cousin, emily, gave birth to
[00:10.92]A son in utah, forty miles north of the great salt lake one
[00:16.53]Morning. but the next morning she travelled on ’til noon when a
[00:20.08]Stop was made and another child was born, this time susan
[00:24.53]Mollmeyer. and gave the baby the name alice nevada.”
[00:29.10]Taken from _women’s diaries of the westward jouney_
[00:30.52]By lillian schlissel
[00:39.64]Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads.
[00:49.38]Pass the lone church spire. pass the talking wire from where to who
[00:57.77]Knows?
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[01:05.55]There’s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western
[01:13.49]Plains. where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over
[01:23.13]Spaces. the land was free and the price was right.
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[01:41.47]Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly. such
[01:51.16]Power in her hand as she hails the wagon man’s family. i see indians
[02:01.35]That
[02:01.53]Crawl through this mural that recalls our history.
[02:09.05]Who were the homestead wives? who were the gold rush brides? does
[02:15.54]Anybody know? do their works survive their yellow fever lives in the
[02:23.80]Pages
[02:25.56]They wrote? the land was free, yet it cost their lives.
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[02:44.47]In miner’s lust for gold, a family’s house was bought and sold, piece
[02:49.61]By piece. a widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so
[02:58.88]Painfully.
[03:02.95]In letters mailed back home her eastern sisters they would moan as
[03:07.71]They
[03:08.23]Would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief.
[03:45.65]Year of Release: 1992