The Dawson City Belle

Klondike News
April 1, 1898

Down in Dawson on the Klondike, there’s a lady in command
Who rules the gold old pioneers and the great Cheechacah band.
To the Company’s store she goes each day and there she helps herself
To anything that pleases her they dare put on the shelf.
Oh the Captain never says to her, “I have no goods to sell.”
She’s a hiyu-skookum lady, she’s the Dawson City belle.

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She’s refused just five and forty of the Eldorado kings
The Swedes upon Dominion think she wears a pair of wings,
On Bonanza from Discovery to Forty-two above,
You could not name a single claim she could not buy for love.

On every new discovery she’s sure to have a claim.
She stampedes like a whirlwind and she gets there just the same.
At the Gold Commissioner’s office then she taps upon the pane
And smiles upon the clerk inside, and never smiles in vain.
That the door is quickly opened, oh I do not need to tell,
For this hiyu-skookum lady, for this Dawson City Belle.

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In furs she sets the fashion for the other girls in town
She receives her friends each morning in a lovely beaver gown,
Her parkee, made of caribou, it is a lovely fit,
And she’s all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit.
This Lovely Klooch is fond of Hooch, and makes it very well,
She’s a hiyu-skookum lady, she’s a Dawson City belle.