Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Gold Rush Brides, artist - 10,000 Maniacs. Album song Original Album Series, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 13.01.2013
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Gold Rush Brides |
Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads |
Pass the lone church spire |
Pass the talking wire from where to who knows? |
There’s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western plains |
Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over spaces |
The land was free and the price was right |
Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly |
Such power in her hand as she hails the wagon man’s family |
I see indians that crawl through this mural that recalls our history |
Who were the homestead wives? |
Who were the gold rush brides? |
Does anybody know? |
Do their works survive their yellow fever lives in the pages they wrote? |
The land was free, yet it cost their lives |
In miner’s lust for gold. |
A family’s house was bought and sold, piece by piece |
A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so painfully |
In letters mailed back home her eastern sisters they would moan |
As they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief |