Come all ye poor men of the north who are working for your lives For to support your families, your children and your wives; There is easier ways of gaining wealth than toiling night and day; Go and dig the gold that lies in California! On every lofty mountain, on every sunny plain, The gold dust lies glittering like dewdrops after rain. Beneath the shade of every tree, among the flowers so gay, It is there we’ll dig the gold that lies in California . . . —Library of Congress Does this song present a realistic description of the life of gold miners?