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Thread #112909 Message #3097562
Posted By: Bev and Jerry
17-Feb-11 - 06:59 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Got a Mule & Her Name is Sal/Erie Canal?
Subject: RE: Origins: Got a Mule & Her Name is Sal/Erie Canal?
The picture on the cover of that sheet music is nearly historically correct but no one rode on the mule. They employed boys to walk behind the mule (carefully) with a switch to keep the mule from being distracted.