In most versions of "Lady Franklin's Lament", the following lines appear: Only the Eskimo in his skin canoe Is the only one that ever got through I once heard someone sing a very interesting but sensible mishearing of the first line, but I'm not sure exactly how the second line was altered to go with it, so I'm making a plausible guess about that second line: Only the Eskimo and his kin can know The only one who could ever get through
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