DEEP IN
THE MOTHERLODE
GENESIS
SONGWRITER:
MIKE RUTHERFORD
COUNTRY: U.K.
ALBUM: ...And
Then There Were Three...
LABEL: ATLANTIC
RECORDS
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE
ROCK
YEAR: 1978
"Deep in the
Motherlode", also entitled "Go West Young Man (In the Motherlode)",
is a song performed and recorded by Genesis, with lyrics and music by Mike
Rutherford. It was released as the sixth track on the group's 1978 album ...And
Then There Were Three... under the title "Deep in the Motherlode".
The song tells a fictional
story of a man's travels during the Nevada gold rush and his family's urging
for him to get as much gold as he can.
A mother lode is a rich
vein of valuable metal in a mine. The lyric "Go West, young man" is a
reference to a famous phrase by Horace Greeley, who, in a 13 July 1865
editorial, advised: "Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the
country."
The song was performed live by Genesis on their 1978 tour
and was used as a frequent opening number on their 1980 tour, but the song was
not performed live thereafter. In Japan and North America it was released as a
single, but re-titled as "Go West Young Man (In the Motherlode)".
Get out of the way fat man. You got
something to do
Go fill up your hands till they're shining up at you.
You gotta get out while there's gold in the air
It's falling like water, coming down from the hills.
Go West young man
Earn a dollar a day just like your family said.
You're rolling your days right on into the night
The head of the line's going way out of sight.
Go West young man like your family said
All along the wagons
All along the dusty trail.
Seventeen years not over a day
Like children in the wild.
Your mother's milk still wet on your face
And no one to pray for your safe journey home.
Out beyond the desert
Across the mountains by the fall.
Servants who leave their masters house
Are walking all the way.
The golden fields that beckoned you
Are darkened by the years.
Go West Young Man
If you knew then what you know today
You'd be back where you started a happier man
And leave all the glory to those who have remained.
So Go West Young Man
Go West Young Man, like your family said.
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