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During the Great Depression during the 1920’s and 30’s while everywhere else was suffering greatly, isolated Wells’ BC was a rocking gold rush town 4000 strong- mostly men. Fred Wells had discovered gold and you had a good job if you could catch on there. Things were so good compared to other places that the joke was that if you found a nickel on the street in Quesnel it probably came from Wells. This is from the point of view of a miner who’s really happy to have a job.

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WELLS
It took a while to know the fellas in the mine
The ones who lied to get the job the ones who’ve done some time
But the bunch of us got lucky and I know
There’s no other place I’d rather be with nowhere else to go

Wells - where my future’s in the ground
When I chance to look around there’s more and more to meet the eye
Wells – I feel your attributes take hold
Just like the gold that’s in this mountain and the silver that’s shining in the sky

A lot of us have gotten pretty sly
If Freddie sees us smoking we can kiss this job goodbye
And the bunch of us – we want to stick around
Cuz we’ve got money in our pockets and we’re tearin up the town

Wells – where you get bitten head to toe and then it’s 42 below until you think you’re gonna die
Wells – you have attained a certain glow
Just like the gold that’s in this mountain and the silver that’s shining in the sky

Freddie’s little town we keep diggin it keeps growin
Bugs keep bitin it keeps snowing and the seasons canter by
There’s money goin round we keep workin we keep drinkin
But a lot of us keep thinkin there’s one thing in short supply

Girls, we need girls, like the ones in all our pictures
O the thought of that is sweeter than the stuff on Freddie’s pancakes
Girls, we need girls, yeah we’re rough but we’re been readied
To be steadied by some ladies –with their lips as soft as snowflakes

I turned 33 a week ago today---it’ll take til I am 35 to wash this dirt away
But I’d rather be a miner with a smell
Than some disinfected hobo begging nickels in Quesnel

Wells –while there’s a living to be made
I here til every vein is played out and there’s nothing left to buy
Wells –may you be thankfully repaid
For the gold that’s in this mountain
And the silver – that shines like the eyes--- of a really, really, really pretty girl
Up in the sky



Ross Douglas--SOCAN

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from Caribou Eclectic - 2003, released February 24, 2021
Ross Douglas - piano ,vocs

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Ross Douglas Point Roberts, Washington

Ross Douglas is an award winning songwriter with 4 albums of original song and a jaunty performance manner. He is eclectic - with influences of folk, jazz ,pop and theatre weaving their way into his music. He is in many cases a story teller. Check him out at www.rossdouglassongs.com ... more

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