you can find songs of The Erie Canal on the Mudcat Digital Tradition, and there are discussion threads including this one Origins: Got a Mule & Her Name is Sal/Erie Canal?

ERIE CANAL (MULE NAMED SAL) (Thomas S. Allen) is discussed in the thread cited above, as is "Oh, Dat Low Bridge" (Edward Harrigan & David Braham).
Oh, That Low Bridge

also The E-ri-e was rising - discussed at https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=30964

FROM BUFFALO TO TROY    From Buffalo to Troy

E-RI-E CANAL This song I think has elements of more than one of the above songs
The Erie Canal, from Alan Lomax collection, in the DT