SACRAMENTO

In the Black Ball Line I served my time

With a hoodah, and a hoodah

In a full rigged ship and in her prime

With a hoodah, hoodah day

Blow, boys blow
For Californio
There's plenty of gold
So I've been told
On the banks of Sacremento

O we were the boys to make her go
Around Cape Horn in the frost and snow

Around Cape Stiff in seventy days
Around Cape Stiff in a mighty long ways

When we was tacking 'round Cape Horn
I often wished I'd never been born

O the mate he whacked me around and around
And I wished I was home all safe and sound

  O when we go to Frisco docks
The girls were all in their Sunday frocks

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