Erie Canal lyrics

Artist	Bruce Springsteen
Album(s)	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Lyrics

We were forty miles from albany
Forget it I never shall
What a terrible storm we had one night
On the e-ri-e - canal

Chorus:
O the e-ri-e was a-rising
And the gin was a-getting low
And I scarcely think we'll get a drink
Till we get to buff-a-lo-o-o
Till we get to buffalo

We were loaded down with barley
We were chock-full up on rye
The captain he looked down at me
With his gol-durned wicked eye

Two days out from syracuse
The vessel struck a shoal;
We like to all be foundered
On a chunk o' lackawanna coal

We hollered to the captain
On the towpath, treadin' dirt
He jumped on board and stopped the leak
With his old red flannel shirt

The cook she was a grand old gal
Stood six foot in her socks
Had a foot just like an elephant
And her breath would open locks

The wind begins to whistle
The waves begin to roll
We had to reef our royals
On that ragin' canal

The cook came to our rescue
She had a ragged dress;
We h'isted her upon the pole
As a signal of distress

When we got to syracuse
Off-mule, he was dead;
The nigh mule got blind staggers
We cracked him on the head

The cook is in the police gazette
The captain went to jail;
And I'm the only son-of-a-sea-cook

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