Deep in the Motherlode by Genesis in HD

From Wikipedia:
“Deep in the Motherlode” is a song performed and recorded by Genesis, with lyrics and music by Mike Rutherford. It was released as the sixth track on the group’s 1978 album …And Then There Were Three….

The song tells a fictional story of a man’s travels during the Nevada gold rush and his family’s urging for him to get as much gold as he can.

The lyric “Go West young man” is a reference to a famous phrase by Horace Greeley, who, in a July 13, 1865 editorial, famously advised: “Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”

The song was performed live by Genesis on their 1978 tour and was used as a frequent opening number on their 1980 tour, but the song was not performed live thereafter. In Japan and North America it was released as a single, but re-titled as “Go West Young Man”, as this line was repeated throughout the song.

Lyrics:
Get out of the way fat man. You got something to do
Go fill up your hands till they’re shining up at you
You gotta get out while there’s gold in the air
It’s falling like water, coming down from the hills

Go West young man
Earn a dollar a day just like your family said
You’re rolling your days right on into the night
The head of the line’s going way out of sight
Go West young man like your family said

All along the wagons
All along the dusty trail
Seventeen years not over a day
Like children in the wild
Your mother’s milk still wet on your face
And no one to pray for your safe journey home

Out beyond the desert
Across the mountains by the fall
Servants who leave their masters house
Are walking all the way.
The golden fields that beckoned you
Are darkened by the years

Go West Young Man
If you knew then what you know today
You’d be back where you started a happier man
And leave all the glory to those who have remained

So Go West Young Man
Go West Young Man, like your family said