Posted on 06/14/2022 9:32:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Some say that the Northern Lights are the glare of the Arctic ice and snow;
And some that it’s electricity, and nobody seems to know.
But I’ll tell you now—and if I lie, may my lips be stricken dumb—
It’s a mine, a mine of the precious stuff that men call radium.
It’s a million dollars a pound, they say, and there’s tons and tons in sight.
You can see it gleam in a golden stream in the solitudes of night.
And it’s mine, all mine—and say! if you have a hundred plunks to spare,
I’ll let you have the chance of your life, I’ll sell you a quarter share.
You turn it down? Well, I’ll make it ten, seeing as you are my friend.
Nothing doing? Say! don’t be hard—have you got a dollar to lend?
Just a dollar to help me out, I know you’ll treat me white;
I’ll do as much for you some day... God bless you, sir; good-night.
LOL. As I recall, it was Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston. Harve Presnell: A way out here, they got a name, for rain and wind and fire.
That was the musical, “Paint Your Wagon”
The post was an excerpt from Robert Service’s “The Ballad of the Northern Lights.”
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD9177.0001.001/1:5?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
He wrote a lot of entertaining ballads about the Alaskan gold rush.
Go north the rush is on
When it’s springtime in Alaska
That’s Johnny Horton, by the way. 😀
Substitute different agricultural products and that sounds very familiar.
The Chinese will be all over that.
You should have just told them “Silver and gold have I none…”.
“I ganda
U ganda
We ganda
They ganda
You go Uruguay and I’ll go Paraguay.
You go to Indonesia, I go to Out-door-nesia”
Well, after reading this article, I say:
You go your way and I’ll go MINE.
I those situations, existential dialog was delayed until all of your attackers ammo had been expended.
;-)
No significant change in the price of gold since this “news” came out so perhaps we can write this up as FAKE NEWS.
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