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American Ballads and Folk Songs |
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SIEGE OF PLATTSBURG* |
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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. |
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♦Sent by R. W. G. Vail, Ithaca, N. Y. Copied from an old newspaper, Brother Jonathan, published |
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by Wilson and Company, New York, July 4, 1845, to tune of "Boyne Water." This |
version is as |
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sung in the theater at Albany in the character of a Negro sailor. |
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