The Neo-Gnostics - The Ballad of San Francisco (feat. Mike Epply)

The city of St. Francis is deserving of it's name
In many ways it's not unlike that artist
Hippie
Saint
For in what other city is so much done for free
Rainbows end & heaven waits inside these golden gates
Twas two o'clock November 1st, 1769
Francisco de Ortega was the first this bay to find
Francisco de Haro in 1837
He bought it all for almost barely nothing

In '46 Montgomery first flew the US flag
Fremont named it Golden Gate & Berryessa lost
In '48 at Sutter's Mill, Marshall made the find
A gold rush on a scramble west SF by '49
Stanford was the grocer, Townsend was the doc
Geary ran the mail, Bret Harte befriended Mark
Crocker was the banker, Mamie Pleasant the best cook
Stevenson from the masons & Bryant wrote the book

But even more important when the gold ran out was one
Joshea Abraham Norton I with Lazatrus & Bummer
Emperor of the USA what better world headquarters
Then San Francisco's music hall LONG LIVE EMPEROR NORTON
And 27 times Black Bart outwitted ol' Wells Fargo
Rubbed it in with rotten poems & no violence at his robberies
While chinese craftsmen build rock walls and the Central Pacific Railroad
No wonder we love San Francisco so

When it started shaking in nineteen & six
The town burned down we built it back this time using bricks
Up it grew like sourdough until today we find
A fishing fleet & cable cars Gainsbourough's & Rembrandt's
And Joltin' Joe & Lefty O with the Airplane in the Park
Big daddy Tommy D & Al Collins afterdark
Pyramids & bridges & if Winterland could talk
And all of us are proud to call it home
All of us are proud to call it home
Yes, all of us are proud to call it home

Written by:
Donald Faughnan, Eugene Osievienko, Michael Epply

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