DESCRIPTION:
Amos sings a song by Charles Bensell where the singer, "Old Tom Moore from the Bummer's Shore," a relic of the California gold rush of 1849, recalls the various characters that he encountered "in the days of old when we dug up the gold"

EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (The Great Emerson's New Popular Songster)

HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1849 - Beginning of the California gold rush