| O, around Cape Horn we are bound to go
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| Around Cape Horn through the sleet and snow
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| Oh, around Cape Horn in the month of May
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| Oh, around Cape Horn is a very long way
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| Them Spanish girls ain’t got no combs
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| They comb their locks with tunny-fish bones
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| We’re the bullies for to kick her through
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| Roll down the hill with a hullabaloo
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| We’ll crack it on, on a big skiyoot
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| And ol' Bully Jim is a bloody big brute
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| When we gets up to 'Frisco town
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah
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| I’ll stand you’s whiskey’s all around
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| To me roo-dah, roo-dah, day
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
|
| On the banks of the Sacramento
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| Blow, boys, blow
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| For Californ-I-O
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| There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told
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| On the banks of the Sacramento |