Mine, Mine, Mine Songtext / Lyric

Ratcliffe

The gold of Cortés

The jewels of Pizarro

Will seem like mere trinkets

By this time tomorrow

The gold we find here

Will dwarf them by far

Oh, with all ya got in ya, boys

Dig up Virginia, boys



Mine, boys, mine ev'ry mountain

And dig, boys, dig 'til ya drop

Grab a pick, boys

Quick, boys

Shove in a shovel

Uncover those lovely

Pebbles that sparkle and shine

It's gold and it's mine, mine, mine






English Settlers

Dig and dig and dig and diggety ...

Dig and dig and dig and diggety ...



Wiggins

Hey nonny nonny

Ho nonny nonny



Ratcliffe

Oh, how I love it!

Riches for Cheap!



Wiggins

There'll be heaps of it ...



Ratcliffe

And I'll be on top of the heap!



My rivals back home

It's not that I'm bitter

But think how they'll squirm

When they see how I glitter!

The ladies at court

Will be all a-twitter

The king will reward me

He'll knight me ... no, lord me!



It's mine, mine, mind

For the taking

It's mine, boys

Mine me that gold!

With those nuggets dug ...



It's glory they'll gimme

My dear friend, King Jimmy

Will probably build me a shrine

When all of the gold is mine



English Settlers

Dig and dig and dig and diggety

Dig and dig and dig and diggety-dig!



Smith

All of my life, I have searched for a land

Like this one

A wilder, more challenging country

I couldn't desing

Hundreds of dangers await

And I don't plan to miss one

In a land I can claim

A land I can tame

The greatest adventure is mine!



[Ratcliffe and English Settlers together]

Ratcliffe

Keep on working, lands

Don't be shirking, lands

Mine, boys, mind

Mine me that gold

Beautiful gold



English Settlers

Mine

Find a mother lode

Then find another load!

Dig! Dig! and diggety

Dig! Dig! for that gold



All

Make this island

My land!



Ratcliffe

Make the mounds big, boys

I'd help you to dig, boys

But I've got this crick in me spine



Smith

This land we behold ...



Ratcliffe

This beauty untold ...



Smith

A man can be bold!

It all can be sold!



[Ratcliffe and English Settlers together]

Ratcliffe

And the gold

Is ...

Mine!

Mine!

Mine!

Mine!



English Settlers

So go for the gold

We know which is here

All the riches here

From this minute

This land and what's in it is

Mine!



Ratcliffe

Dig and dig and diggety-dig!

Hey nonny nonny nonny it's mine