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From American Murder Ballads by Olive Woolley Burt. Believed to be about the murder and cannibalization of five prospectors by Alfred Packer
The story: Alfred Packer, Man-Eater.
The Lost Miners
(tune unknown)
Six miners went into the mountains
To hunt for precious gold;
It was the middle of winter,
The weather was dreadfully cold.
Six miners went into the mountains,
They had nor food nor shack -
Six miners went into the mountains,
But only one came back.
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