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The Fools of Forty-Nine
— Crowds head for California and the gold fields. En route they suffer poverty, h…
For Seven Long Years I've Been Married
— "For seven long years I've been married, I wish I had lived an old maid... My h…
Four Pence a Day
— "The ore is waiting in the tubs, the snow's upon the fell." The washer lads mus…
The Four-Loom Weaver
— Singer, a weaver, laments hard times -- his clothes are worn out, his furnitur…
The Fox River Line (The Rock Island Line)
— The singer (and men of many nations) work in George Allan's camp without earnin…
The Freehold on the Plain
— The singer reports that he is now a "broken-down old squatter, my cash it is al…
From Ogemaw
— The song, in its entirety: "I'm a ramblin' wreck of poverty/From Ogemaw I came/…
The Gambler (I)
— "My moments are lonesome, no pleasure I find, My true love is a gambler, It tro…
Girl from Clahandine
— Before the singer leaves for America he bids his friends adieu and tearfully le…
Girl of Constant Sorrow
— Singer tells of leaving her mother (now dead) and her home in Kentucky so that …