06 Apr 06 - 08:00 AM (#1711768)
Subject: happy? - Apr 6 (Smugglers of Buffalo)
From: Abby Sale
It was on the sixth of April as I lay on my bed,
A'thinking of the sorrows that crowned my aching head;
And surrounded I was by officers, and with them I was forced to go
To serve a long and dreary trick in the jails of Buffalo. with a possat in [his hand]
"The Smugglers of Buffalo," collected on Beaver Island, 1938. In Windjammers:
Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, Prof. Ivan Walton & Joe Grimm
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