Whatever is yours is mine.

If I’ve a stone,

It’s all my own,

No John Fry shall make me groan

Over the Free State line,

I’ll never have cause to pine,

The I.D.B. is happy and free

Over the Free State line.


In the early days of the Diamond Fields when many made fortunes by illicit diamond buying, the following song was most popular in the Kimberley music-halls:—