BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO

by Robert W. Service

[British-born Canadian Poet—1874-1958.]

American 1909 edition.











CONTENTS OF FIRST LINES:

     To the Man of the High North      My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming     Men of the High North      Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing;     The Ballad of the Northern Lights      One of the Down and Out—that's me.  Stare at me well, ay, stare!     The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin      There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame,     The Ballad of Pious Pete      I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did.     The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill      I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie,     The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike      This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye,     The Ballad of the Brand      'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare,     The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry      Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank     The Man from Eldorado      He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town,     My Friends      The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief;     The Prospector      I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight,     The Black Sheep      H                        
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