the days of forty nine

• kaliforniya'da altına hücum günlerini anlatan efsanevi folk şarkısı. ken burns'un the west adlı belgeselinde mükemmel bir yorumu mevcuttur. daha geyik bir cover'ı ise bob dylan tarafından yapılmıştır. sözleri de şöyle:
  
  i'm old tom moore from the bummer's shore
  in the good old golden days.
  they call me a bummer and a gin sot, too
  but what care i for praise
  i wander around from town to town
  just like a roving sign,
  and the people all say "there goes tom moore
  of the days of '49.
  
  cho: in the days of old, in the days of gold
  how often i repine
  for the days of old when we dug up the gold
  in the days of '49.
  
  there was nantuck bill, i knew him well,
  a feller that was fond of tricks.
  at a poker game he was always there
  and heavy with his bricks.
  he would ante up and draw his cards
  and go in a hatfull blind
  in a game of bluff, bill lost his breath
  in the days of '49.
  
  there was new york jake, a butcher boy
  he was always getting tight.
  and every time that he got full
  he was always hunting a fight.
  one night he run up against a knife
  in the hands of old bob kline
  and over jake they held a wake
  in the days of '49.
  
  there was poor old jess, the old lame cuss
  he never would relent.
  her never was known to miss a drink
  or ever spend a cent.
  at length old jess like all the rest
  who never would decline,
  in all his bloom went up the flume
  in the days of '49.
  
  there was roaring bill from buffalo
  i never will forget.
  he would roar all day and he'd roar all night
  and i guess he's roaring yet.
  one night he fell in a prospector's hole
  in a roaring bad design,
  in in that hole roared out his soul
  in the days of '49