Our Singing Country
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9 Siz own brother Johnny, "It grieves my heart sore To think we will never return to the shore $ God help our poor parents, their tears down will flow; For we'll sleep in Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow/5 |
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DARK-EYED CANALLER (Dark-Eyed Sailor)
e. No. 1007. Capt. P. R. Nye, Akron, Ohio, 1937. See Cox, p. 319; Ma, p. 172j Ga.2, p. 160; Gr, p. 58.
"My sister furnished all except the first stanza to this song. I sent to England for the first stanza and received it with a statement asking six hundred dollars for the remainder of the song. Since I already had plenty of stanzas} and didnyt have the six hundred dollarsy I just let the English keep the rest pf their song. This song was known from one end of the Canal to the othery from Cleveland through Akron down to the Ohio River"
—Captain Nye. |
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1 It was a comely young lady fair. Was walking out to take the air. She met a canaller upon the way,
So I paid attention, so I paid attention, To hear what they did say.
2 "Fair maid," said he, "while you roam alone-The night is coming and the day's far gone."
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