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Gold Rush Brides
1,210
Rock
Gold Rush Brides was released on September 29, 1992 by Rhino/Elektra as a part of the album Our Time In Eden
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Release DateSeptember 29, 1992
LabelRhino/Elektra
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM103

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads
Pass the lone church spire
Pass the talking wire from where to who knows?
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
The land was free and the price was right
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
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?
[Verse 6]
The land was free, yet it cost their lives
[Verse 7]
In miner's lust for gold
A family's house was brought 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
Written by: Natalie Merchant, Rob Buck
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