Gold Rush Brides(Live Unplugged) - 10/000 Maniacs

作词：Natalie Merchant/Rob Buck

Follow the typical signs the hand painted

lines down prairie roads

Pass the lone church spire

Pass the talking wire from where to

know who

There's no way to divide the beauty of

the sky

from the wild western plains

Where a man could drift in legendary myth

by roaming over spaces

The land was free and the price was right

Dakota on the wall is a white robed

woman broad yet maidenly

Such power in her hand as she hails

the wagon man's family

I see indians that crawl through this mural

that recalls our history

Who were the homestead wives

Who were the gold rush brides

Does anybody know

Do their works survive their yellow fever

lives in the pages they wrote

The land was free yet it cost their lives

In miner's lust for gold

A family's house was bought and sold

piece by piece

A widow staked her claim on a dollar

and his name so painfully

In letters mailed back home

her eastern sisters they would moan

As they would read

accounts of madness childbirth

loneliness and grief

accounts of madness childbirth

loneliness and grief

accounts of madness childbirth

loneliness and grief

accounts of madness childbirth

loneliness and grief