The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30964   Message #4147740
Posted By: Lighter
18-Jul-22 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Erie Canal (E-Ri-E)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Erie Canal (E-Ri-E)
I can't explain that formatting.

Anyway, Harold Thompson's "Body, Boots & Britches" (1939) has the following, as collected by Allen Walsh of Buffalo "from versions given by Captain Jake Oatman and Captain Wesley Thomas":

(Hullfish's "horse bridge" stanza)

(Nell's blind staggers)

("Gilson on the dock," followed by:)

Says he, "What's all the noise?"
Says he, "What team is that?"
"Itt's Yorker Min and Goose-Neck Tim,
And we're both a-gettin' fat."


The chorus is:

For the Erie is a-ragin',
And our gin is gettin' low;
Oh, I hardly think we'll get a drink
Till we get to Buffalo.