Gold Fever

Years ago
I labored so
Spent my days always searching for the gold

Devoid of light
No end in sight
I chose to live 'neath the cover of the night

Then one day
A woman came
She wished to lay with me and ease my pain

I could not keep
Her love with me
I broke my vow and she began to weep

All my searching
It came to nothing
No gold did I find
One thousand mornings
One thousand evenings
No tears did I cry

It was pride
That struck me blind
I chose seclusion for my pretty bride

Nothing could shake
Me from this fatе
I closed my eyes and wavеd it all away

My hands are shaking
Gold fever's taken
The joy I might have known
My heart is racing
I am forsaken
No love to call my own