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Shotover River, your gold it’s waning;

And it’s years since the colour I’ve seen

But it’s no use just sitting and Lady Luck blaming

I’ll pack up, then I’ll make the break clean

Farewell to the gold that never I found

Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;

For it’s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming

Down in the dark, deep underground

It’s nearly two years since I left my old mother

For adventure and gold by the pound

And with Jimmy the prospector — he was another

And to the hills of Atago we were bound

Farewell to the gold that never I found

Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;

For it’s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming

Down in the dark, deep underground

Well we worked the Cardrona’s dry valley all over

Old Jimmy Williams and me

They were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover

And so we headed down there just to see

Farewell to the gold that never I found

Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;

For it’s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming

Down in the dark, deep underground

Well, we sluiced and we cradled for day after day

And making hardly enough to get by

And then a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away

During six stormy days in July

Farewell to the gold that never I found

Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;

For it’s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming

Down in the dark, deep underground

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