One Year, Three Months, A Week to the Day Songtext
von Jesse Dayton

Point the peacemakers in the sky boys
And shootem′ off six in a row
Climb down off your saddles
Hit the bar and gamble all your dough
Well the girls here are pretty and the whiskey is cheap
I hit a deep vein on my stake a mile up the creek Minstrel that sugar foot
Tomorrow we're all goin′ home
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain't nothin′ but a waste of mules and money
I don′t think it was worth what we struck to stay
It's been one year and three months, a week to the day


Take a hot bath and a shave
So the youngins′ can remember who you are
Buy some lace and some perfume
For the woman who's waited this far
Well it′s twenty-five hundred miles to the Missouri line
On a wagon out of Fresno that's a real long time
Powder up the barrels
Cause I′m travelin' with a trunk full of gold
California ain't no milk and honey
Ain′t nothin′ but a waste of mules and money
I don't think it was worth what we struck to stay
It′s been one year and three months a week to the day