Written by the New Zealand folk musician Paul Metzers
Played live by Dylan in Youngstown, OH Nov 2, 1992
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
Chords used:
Em7 xx2033 Cadd9 x32030 most often this seems to be played as a straight C
D Em7 C D
Shotover River, your gold it is waning
C(add9) D G D
And it's years since the color I've seen.
D Em7 C D
No use just sitting, Lady Luck blaming
C(add9) D G C/g G
I'll pack up and make a break clean.
D Dsus4 D G D
Farewell to the gold that never I found,
D Dsus4 D G D
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;
G C G D
For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
C D G
Down in the dark deep underground.
It's nearly three years since I left my old mother For adventure and gold by the pound. With Jimmy the prospector, he was another, For the hills of Otago we were bound.
Farewell . . .
We worked the Cardrona's dry valley all over Old Jimmy Williams and me. They were panning good dust on the winding shotover So we headed down there just to see.
Farewell . . .
We sluiced and we cradled for day after day Barely making enough to get by; Then a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away During six stormy days in July.
Farewell . . .