Treasure

This is a story from the history pages Where diamonds were found In the Kimberly hole And when its wealth was extolled To Johannesburg next the road would lead To the fields of gold they next would seek On Witwatersrand main reef And when the seam was mined and spent To Rustenburg the miners went For platinum to sink drilling shaft's South Africa's history belies its earth Where empires came to mine for wealth Now all that stand are plots of land Are rusty head gear and mining dumps Gone are the conveyor belts And refinery smoke And the mining folk Where hard hats with torch attached Shone upon the fossil rock Now what replaced the mining rush Is Johannesburg's now a bed of crime And Kimberly is now a 1 horse town If truth be told All that glistened isn't gold And diamonds aren't forever When the mining stops And nothing is left