{"id":7032,"date":"2005-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:53:27","slug":"erie-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7032","title":{"rendered":"Erie Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Erie.gif\" height=\"420\" width=\"422\" alt=\"Erie.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Eire_Canal_2005.mp3\">Erie Canal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is a comic story about a tragic boat ride down the Erie Canal. I decided to sing this in the style of the late 50s &#8211; early 60s college folk groups. I can see the audience sitting an a large hall, the men wearing three button jackets and skinny ties and the ladies in pretty dresses.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Canal opened in 1825. The Ohio and Erie Canal, joining Cleveland and Portsmouth, was completed in 1845. For 25 years these canals were busy trade routes, piloted by burly, aggressive boatmen on long narrow craft. These keelboats were sharp at both ends, built on a keel and ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Gradually the railroads replaced the keelboat as a form of commercial transportation and the canal traffic was greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nE-RI-E CANAL<\/p>\n<p>[A] We were forty miles from Albany<br \/>\nForget it I [E] never [A] shall.<br \/>\n[A] What a terrible [E] storm we [A] had one [D] night<br \/>\n[A] On the E-ri-e [E] &#8211; [A] Canal.<\/p>\n<p>chorus:<br \/>\nO the E-ri-e was a-rising<br \/>\nAnd the gin was a-getting low.<br \/>\nAnd I scarcely think we&#8217;ll get a drink<br \/>\nTill we get to Buff-a-lo-o-o<br \/>\nTill we get to Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>We were loaded down with barley<br \/>\nWe were chock-full up on rye.<br \/>\nThe captain he looked down at me<br \/>\nWith his gol-durned wicked eye.<\/p>\n<p>Two days out from Syracuse<br \/>\nThe vessel struck a shoal;<br \/>\nWe like to all be foundered<br \/>\nOn a chunk o&#8217; Lackawanna coal.<\/p>\n<p>We hollered to the captain<br \/>\nOn the towpath, treadin&#8217; dirt<br \/>\nHe jumped on board and stopped the leak<br \/>\nWith his old red flannel shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The cook she was a grand old gal<br \/>\nStood six foot in her socks.<br \/>\nHad a foot just like an elephant<br \/>\nAnd her breath would open locks.<\/p>\n<p>The wind begins to whistle<br \/>\nThe waves begin to roll<br \/>\nWe had to reef our royals<br \/>\nOn that ragin&#8217; canal.<\/p>\n<p>The cook came to our rescue<br \/>\nShe had a ragged dress;<br \/>\nWe h&#8217;isted her upon the pole<br \/>\nAs a signal of distress.<\/p>\n<p>When we got to Syracuse<br \/>\nOff-mule, he was dead;<br \/>\nThe nigh mule got blind staggers<br \/>\nWe cracked him on the head.<\/p>\n<p>The cook is in the Police Gazette<br \/>\nThe captain went to jail;<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m the only son-of-a-sea-cook<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s left to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? 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I can see the audience sitting an a large hall, the men wearing three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erie Canal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}