Half by sea   Through the isthmus o'er the cape they're rounding      Over land   Follow the shallow ribbon of the plat   an El Dorado waits   like an avalanche   and the boys are off to see   the elephant      How does it feel   to roam this land like Hart and Twain did?   How, how, how does it feel?   A thousand miles closer to hell      Over land   they pass God's bluff and cross the basin   Half by sea   they follow the coast and through the gate where      Gold is coated with gold   on the languid hills   where they wait for hours and hours   cool gray ladies from shirley's learn us cheer   and they sat for hours and hours      The luck of the roaring camp   and how they taught the outcasts of the flats   in their poker face      Cannot hide the fever of   the children's crusade   slow, slower than slow   days spill into one another      Gold is coated with gold   on the languid hills   where they wait for hours and hours   cool gray ladies from Shirley's loan us cheer   and they sat for hours and hours