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	American Ballads and Folk Songs
	SIEGE OF PLATTSBURG*
	Back side Albany stan' Lake Champlain— Little pond, half full of water. Platt'burg dere too, close upon de main, Town small—he grow bigger, do, hereafter.
	♦Sent by R. W. G. Vail, Ithaca, N. Y. Copied from an old newspaper, Brother Jonathan, published
	by Wilson and Company, New York, July 4, 1845, to tune of "Boyne Water." This	version is as
	sung in the theater at Albany in the character of a Negro sailor.
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