Ho, boys, ho!
For California, O!
There's plenty of gold,
So I've been told,
On the banks of the Sacramento.

Ho, boys, ho!
For California, O!
There's plenty of bones,
So I've been told,
On the banks of the Sacramento.

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Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1960, BBC Publications

Notes:
An unusually extensive entry for the 'Singing' Together series:

From American Song Book, E. J. Arnold and Sons.

The song dates from the year 1849 when gold was discovered in Sacramento, California. The men who took part in this rush were called 'forty-niners', an expression which occurs in another folk song of this period, Clementine. The tune of The Banks of Sacramento is probably some pioneer's adaption of Stephen Foster's Camptown Races.

Roud: 319 (Search Roud index at VWML) Take Six
Laws:
Child:

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Related Songs:  Sacramento (thematic)