Mudcat Café message #1536918

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Thread #83565 Message #1536918
Posted By: Abby Sale
07-Aug-05 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Aug 7 (First commercial laker)
Subject: happy? - Aug 7 (First commercial laker)

First trip of the first commercial laker, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle's
Le Griffon on Lake Erie- 8/7/1679
La Salle built his ship on the banks of the Niagara River in 1679.


          My first trip dawn old Lake Erie,
          With some sailors to explore;
                  A-singing, way, Niagara,
                  Below Niagara Falls.
          Then I met Rosy O'Flannagan,
          Best of all the Buffalo whores.
                  A-singing, way, Niagara,
                  Below Niagara Falls.
  
                          "The Buffalo Whore," Text recorded by Ivan Walton 1934.  See
                          Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors.  Tune & chorus
                          by Lee Murdock.