Listen my friend hear my thoughts
I shall not seek absolution.
I was driven mad by a promoter who had
grand ideas of delusion.
"You can get on right right now kid,
I'll put you in charge of a drift.
In a week we'll be up and running
that will give this old hole a lift.
This lease has the finest potential
it assays the highest per ton.
It mad millions in that last decade
it's almost ready to run."
"You say your an able miner
how about working for shares
It may be burgers today
but you'll soon dine on the finest of fare."
I looked around the shop wearhouse,
mill and the dump.
He's words were pretty enticing
my heart it started to pump.
But I noticed his pickups had
various names, companies long gone under.
Equipment all had brand new paint
and had seen it's share of thunder.
Yes I'll let you in right kid said he
a stock option we could raise.
I've seen things go from a nickel
to to a hundred in a couple of days.
He spun and yacked and talked away
of dollars , quarters and dimes
The Lucky, the Gold bug , Eureka
his many successful mines.
"I'll put you on tommorow kid,
I only hire the best.
Don't forget what I told you.
in this mine you should probably invest."
Obtuse I stood sort of star struck,
those mines he happened to mention.
I read in the Mining Record,
we all in banking retention?
That’s all it took the light came on
Pay attention and you'll agree
I learned more about him in five minutes
than in a lifetime he learned about me.
