The Emperor of San Francisco

Transcribed. Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. And here comes our summer show train. Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents a new musical play by Lawrence and Lee, the Emperor of San Francisco, starring Gordon MacRae, and his guest-beautiful Dorothy Warren Show.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Ragan. Yes, tonight another musical premiere is brought to you by the American Railroad. The same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life.

And now here is our star, Gordon MacRae. Oh! Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen. Say, did you know that the United States once had an emperor? Yes, sir. His capital city wasn't Washington, or New York or Philadelphia.

It was... ...and the band is going on and on and on and on. And tonight I'm going to be that emperor of San Francisco. His name was Joshua Norton, an adventurer who came west with the gold rush and probably sang this song with the mountain sick miners in the days of 49.

I've traveled the mountains all over and now to the valleys out blue and live like a pig in the clover inside the pewds mountains of snow you try to do something to snow I live like a pig in the clover inside the pewds mountains of snow I'm greatly in favor of mining with me though it does not agree

I'd rather be gently reclining with beauty upon a city With beauty upon us that be, with beauty upon us that be I'd rather be gently reclining away, with beauty upon us that be I'm not much in favor of thieving, at least not the way that I feel But I'll never work for a living as long as I'm able to steal