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I'm awful sad to say

That my partner died last week

And I'm so shook up inside,

I can barely even speak,

I don't know how he died

It all came as such a shock......

But i suspect he started feeling ill

When i hit him with a rock

We where partners in a claim

Up in gold hill Idaho,

And we'd yet to find something

Golden except the yellow snow,(first song)

My partner joe god bless his soul

Had hit the mother load

"Well I'll use my gold" said my partner Joe

To get my education

And if any is left when I am through

I'll give it to sick children

Well i thought that Joe was crazy

For to hear him talk like that.....

So i decided it was best for joe

If he took a little nap

So i picked up a big old piece of gold,

And I hit joe on the head,

And joe shut his weary eyes,

And lay down on the rocky bed,

"you take some rest my faithful friend"

Said i as joe lay down

And let me load this wagon

With the gold that you have found.

(This is my first song I'm not proud)

So like the true friend that i was

I loaded up the ore

While my partner joe lay silently

sleeping on the floor

And when the gold was loaded

And i was set to get to town.....

I tried to wake my sleepy friend

But he refused to come around.

"Well if that don't wake you up,

I know something that just might"

Said I as i lit up

A few sticks of dynamite,

I settle down and waited,

For them to wake Joe from his dream....

But alas i put the sticks to close and Joe blew to smithereens,

And if Joes luck wasnt bad enough

He lay close toe the mine,

And when the dynamite went off,

he was covered by mountain slime,

Alas said I "all evidence

Is gone of poor Joe's life....

All that left is a ton of gold

And a little less dynamite,

So now Joe rests in pieces,

And i on a water bed,

But it doesnt bother me a bit,

That my partner joe is dead,

For while some people might say

That miner got the shaft.....(first song)

I'm the only one that knows

That Old Joe had a blast

Hope it sounds ok!

Superdoor