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Thread #11090   Message #4057620
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
06-Jun-20 - 05:40 AM
Thread Name: Narrowboat songs
Subject: RE: Narrowboat songs
A little broader; Following Olga To Lynn - written by Paul Eady, recorded by Mark Dowding on Brown Photographs Cock Robin Music CRM 063 2002

Lyrics on Songs of the Inland Waterways

This song is about two tank barges called Enid and Lizzie that were pulled by a motor boat called Olga on their journey from Cambridge to Kings Lynn taking Gas Water which was a by-product of the coke industry.
Gas Water was full of ammonia and was processed to use as a fertiliser.