Name: Fool's Gold
Duration: P00H05M53S
Description: Recorded live off the floor, huddled around vintage ribbon mics, and into a 1953 Ampex tape recorder at Ganaraska Recording Co.

Fool's Gold

by The Lucky Ones

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Recorded live off the floor, huddled around vintage ribbon mics, and into a 1953 Ampex tape recorder at Ganaraska Recording Co.

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Gathered around, some bar, some town
One More in an endless string of days
Freedom’s just a dream that not many men have seen
Those that do they try to drink the though away

What would you say if I told you about a place
Where you could reach down and pull gold right out the creek?
You’d better choose fast this could be your only chance
Let it pass you’ll be forever blue and weak

Come on boys, there’s gold to be found
Hiding under northern ground
We’ve got the plan, if you’ve got willing hands
And there’s nothing left for you in your hometown
You could turn your life around

Take a boat to a place where there’s no roads
See the footprints of a hundred thousand men
Start the trail with a hundred miles up hill
There’ll be a thousand more until you reach the end

There were no claims left to stake when most men reached the place
Where the Klondike and the Yukon rivers flow
Whiskey, whores, and thieves and Canadian police
Thirty thousand men without a hope

Sorry boys, there’s nothing to be found
And you’re standing on somebody else’s ground
Make what you can digging for another man
You might be awhile in town
Or you can turn your ass around

It all happened so fast, like the burning of a match
And it faded just as quick as it began
For a hundred years and more, we all heard the tale and swore
That never would they take us in again

But the fisheries collapsed and the factories hit the tracks
And all the little farms are getting sold
And I heard about a place they pay five hundred bucks a day
Just for sitting in a loader digging holes

Come on boys, there’s black gold to be found
Hiding in Alberta ground
We’ve got the plan if you’ve got willing hands
And there’s nothing left of your hometown
You could turn your life around

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released February 16, 2024
released January 19, 2024
Recorded at Ganaraska Recording Co. by Steve Marriner and Jim Bowskill. Mastered by James McKenty at In Record Time Studio.

Ian Smith: Vocals, Guitar
Ryan West: Mandolin
Kieran Poile: Fiddle
Ryan McNally: Banjo
Jeff Dineley: Bass

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