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| Date: | Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:37:15 -0400 |
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I'm wondering if the lyrics to this canal song - - particularly in the second verse - - could point to the Black River Canal? It was taken down by NY folklorist Sam Eskin in 1946 from a man named Des Powell who was living at the time in Arizona, and at the bottom of Eskin's notes, he scribbled the words "Black River Canal".
O! it's nine miles to my darlin', nine miles to go,
Nine miles on the old Rome haul
Gee this boat is slow
O! if ever I get back to my darlin
I ain't gonna leave her no more
Gonna Settle down in old Rome town and open up a country story
First you pass a foundry and then you pass a mill
Then you pass Walt Waterbery's place the other side of the hill
Then you pass a graveyard and then a bridge that's low
Then it's 9 more miles to my darling
O when last I saw my darlin, she was standin in the toll-house door
The tears run down her pretty little cheeks and they fell with a splash on the floor
O, if ever I get back to my darlin I ain't gonna leave her no more
gonna settle down in old Rome town and open up a country store
By God and open up a country store.
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