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Markham, Edwin
California, the Wonderful, page 112
(The Epic of The Overland Trail)
Heart's International Library Company
New York, 1914
I soon shall be in Frisco,
And then I'll look around;
And when I see the gold lumps there,
I'll pick them off the ground.
O California,
That's the land for me:
I'm bound for San Francisco,
With my washboard on my knee.