[Lyric] Farewell to the Gold (Gordon Bok)

[Verse 1]
Shotover River, your gold it is waiting
It's years since the color I've seen
No use just waiting and Lady Luck blaming
I'll pack up and make the break clean

[Chorus]
Farewell to the gold that never I found
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
For it's only when dreaming that I see them gleaming
Down in the dark, deep underground

[Verse 2]
Well, it's nearly three years since I left my old mother
For adventure and gold by the pound
With Jimmy the prospector, he and another
For the hills of Otago wе were bound

[Chorus]
Farewеll to the gold that never I found
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
For it's only when dreaming that I see them gleaming
Down in the dark, deep underground
[Verse 3]
We searched the Cardrona's dry valley all over
Old Jimmy Williams and me
They were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover
So we went down there just for to see

[Chorus]
Farewell to the gold that never I found
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
For it's only when dreaming that I see them gleaming
Down in the dark, deep underground

[Verse 4]
Though we sluiced and we cradled for day after day
Makin' hardly enough to get by
When the terrible flood took poor Jimmy away
During six stormy days in July

[Chorus]
Farewell to the gold that never I found
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
For it's only when dreaming that I see them gleaming
Down in the dark, deep underground

[Chorus/Outro]
Farewell to the gold that never I found
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
For it's only when dreaming that I see them gleaming
Down in the dark, deep underground