{"id":9733,"date":"2024-05-01T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:22:02","slug":"low-bridge-everybody-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9733","title":{"rendered":"Low Bridge Everybody Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Eire_Canal.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Eire_Canal.mp3\"><br \/>\nLow Bridge Everybody Down &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>The Erie Canal was America&#8217;s first &#8220;Super Highway&#8221; running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Construction began in 1817 and was completed in 1825. It ran 363 miles and created great wealth for New York City. Eventually railroads replaced it for commercial use. It still exists partially as a recreational waterway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low_Bridge_(song)\">About the song from Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>Capo on 1st fret.<br \/>\n[Em] I&#8217;ve got an old [Bm] mule, and [G] her name is [Am] Sal, [Em] Fifteen years on the [D] Erie [Em] Canal<br \/>\n[Em] She&#8217;s a good old [Bm] worker and a [G] good old [Am] pal, [Em] Fifteen years on the [D] Erie [Em] Canal<br \/>\n[G] We&#8217;ve hauled some barges in [D] our day, [C] filled with lumber, [B7] coal and hay.<br \/>\n[Em] And every [Bm] inch of the [G] way I [Am] know, [Em] From Albany to [D] Buff [Em] alo<\/p>\n<p>[G] Low bridge, [D] everybody down, [G] Low bridge, [D] cause we&#8217;re coming to a town.<br \/>\n[Em] You can always [Bm] tell your neighbor; [G] you can always tell your [Am] pal.<br \/>\n[Em] If he&#8217;s ever navigated on the [D] Erie [Em] Canal<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d better look &#8217;round for a job old gal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nYou bet your life I wouldn\u2019t part with Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nGiddyap there gal we\u2019ve passed that lock, we\u2019ll make Rome &#8216;fore six o-clock<br \/>\nSo one more trip and then we\u2019ll go, Right straight back to Buffalo<\/p>\n<p>Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, I&#8217;ve got the finest mule in town<br \/>\nOnce a man named Mike McGinty tried to put it over Sal<br \/>\nNow he\u2019s way down at the bottom of the Erie Canal<\/p>\n<p>Oh, where would I be if I lost my pal? Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;d like to see a mule as good as Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nA friend of mine once got her sore, Now, he&#8217;s got a broken jaw.<br \/>\nCause she let fly with her iron toe and kicked him into Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, I\u2019ve got the finest mule in town.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re looking &#8217;round for trouble, better stay away from Sal.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the only fighting donkey on the Erie Canal<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have to call when I want my Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nShe trots from her stall like a good old gal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nI eat my meals with Sal each day, I eat beef and she eat hay.<br \/>\nShe isn\u2019t so slow if you want to know, she put the &#8220;Buff&#8221; in Buffalo<\/p>\n<p>Chorus: Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, I\u2019ve got the finest mule in town<br \/>\nEats a bale of hay for dinner, and on top of that, my Sal.<br \/>\nTries to drink up all the water in the Erie Canal<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll soon hear them sing everything about my gal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a darned fool ditty &#8217;bout my darned fool Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal<br \/>\nOh, every band will play it soon, Darned fool words and darned fool tune!<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll hear it sung everywhere you go, from Mexico to Buffalo<\/p>\n<p>Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, I&#8217;ve got the finest mule in town.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a perfect, perfect lady, and she blushes like a gal.<br \/>\nIf she hears you sing about her and the Erie Canal.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Low Bridge Everybody Down &#8211; Click To Play The Erie Canal was America&#8217;s first &#8220;Super Highway&#8221; running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Construction began in 1817 and was completed in 1825. It ran 363 miles and created great wealth for New York City. Eventually railroads replaced it for commercial use. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Low Bridge Everybody Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}