Sometimes I tell an untruth, but this one is real

Taken from a true story

Gold Gittin Machine

Now a good gold diggin ol’ buddy of mine,
Swore he’d built the greatest one of a kind,

Gold processing and best kinda machine ,
That any gold miner had ever seen,

So with the best of honest intention,
I went to feast my eyes on his latest invention,

An amazing sight I hoped to see,
Jim didn’t disappoint, laid his pitch on me,

Complex it was , there was little doubt,
But he was happy to spell it all out,

Look at these features, cheap and light weight,
Easy to assemble and the set up is great,

All of the latest and best of design,
Engineered to perfection it’s one of a kind,

Rocker boxes , sluices and every kinda pan,
Nothing holds a candle to the Gold Gittin Can,

There’s nothing out there on the market today,
At a hundred and fifty , I’m giving it away,

Cost and assembly can’t help but please.
Every gold miner oughta have one of these,

In sheer admiration, I really had to say,
Jim your machine just blows me away,

Jim said yeah, it’s a really great unit ,
There’s just one problem, that really might ruin it,

I said, What’s That ?! , What’s that?!!, Is there some kinda quirk?
He said , Yeah, Yeah! a big one , “ The Damn Thing don’t work!”

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