Galena

Oh you should have seen her Raw and wild as they came Promising wealth without measure If only she would be tamed We broke our backs to charm her
 Gave her our blood and our bones 
’Til we won her gracious favor In a bed among the stones Play the concertina 
Lay your burden down Remember when days were sweeter 
And raise a glass to Galena Oh you should have seen her Dressed in her finery
 Shining bright as any
 Jewel of the Owyhee We traded our picks for walking canes Forgot wives we left on the farm
 And stole down tiger alleyways
 With girls from the line on our arm She made us a name when we staked our claim In her arms we grew up so fast How could we know that the life we loved so
 Wasn’t meant to last Oh you should have seen her
 When we’d taken all she could give The bounty we had won from her We thought we’d never outlive A penny curiosity 
Old bones in a pinewood vale No one to say what she’d meant to be And no one to tell her tale Play the concertina
 Lay your burden down 
Remember when days were sweeter And say a prayer for Galena Oh how we loved you, Galena