07 Aug 05 - 10:25 AM (#1536918)
Subject: happy? - Aug 7 (First commercial laker)
From: Abby Sale
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.
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