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LYRICS

MINER'S MELODY
Music by Willis Lamm, lyrics by Harold Roy Miller © 2005
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The Comstock Lode 
was quite a famous mine.
The silver ore glowed
and how the gold did shine.
Saloon whisky flowed,
as did the beer and wine, I’m told.
-  in Virginia City.

The miners poured in 
from every western port;
hard working men
of every type and sort.
Some would win, 
some of them came up short on gold 
- on gold.

The silver was gone
by eighteen seventy-eight.
It was soon known
of strikes in another state.
The miners moved on
and left the town to its fate.
- Poor Virginia City.

The dynamite blasts
that came from underground
were in the past.
No more ore was found.
The mines breathed their last,
then they were shut down and sold. 
- What a pity.