Half by sea

Through the isthmus o'er the cape they're rounding


Over land

Follow the shallow ribbon of the plat

an El Dorado waits

like an avalanche

and the boys are off to see

the elephant


How does it feel

to roam this land like Hart and Twain did?

How, how, how does it feel?

A thousand miles closer to hell


Over land

they pass God's bluff and cross the basin

Half by sea

they follow the coast and through the gate where


Gold is coated with gold

on the languid hills

where they wait for hours and hours

cool gray ladies from shirley's learn us cheer

and they sat for hours and hours


The luck of the roaring camp

and how they taught the outcasts of the flats

in their poker face


Cannot hide the fever of

the children's crusade

slow, slower than slow

days spill into one another


Gold is coated with gold

on the languid hills

where they wait for hours and hours

cool gray ladies from Shirley's loan us cheer

and they sat for hours and hours