San Francisco Bay Lyrics

I'm goin' away, I'm going away,

I'm gonna cross that wide Pacific

To San Francisco Bay.

I'll go on the sailing ship


Across the ocean wide


Gonna build the white man's railroad

When I get to the other side.

I'm gonna swing a big old hammer,

I'm gonna walk that big long line,

Across the desert and the mountain

And the prairie sunshine.

Yeah, I'm goin' away, I'm going away,

I'm gonna cross that wide Pacific

To San Francisco Bay.

And the Americans'll all just love me.

They'll all point and say—

There's the man who crossed the ocean

To San Francisco Bay!

They'll say, come on in here!


Let me share with you what's mine!

Because you sailed the mighty ocean!

And built that railroad line!

I'm goin' away, I'm going away,

I'm gonna cross that wide Pacific

To San Francisco Bay.

And a hundred years from now,

Just think how sweet it's gonna be!

To have all our children's children.

Be one great big family!

I'm goin' away, I'm going away,

I'm gonna cross that wide Pacific

To San Francisco Bay...

To San Francisco Bay...

To San Francisco Bay...

To San Francisco Bay.