Peter Jones

DESCRIPTION: "Peter Jones was a Schenectay lad, and a lad both brave and bold," who "shipped before the mast on the Erie Canal." A "pirate," Bill Smith, lives by the canal; his daughter loves Peter. Smith breaks Peter's head then drowns in the canal
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1941 (collected from Oliver Jenness by Flanders)
KEYWORDS: canal pirate children love fight death drowning injury
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, p. 187, "Peter Jones" (1 text, 1 tune, at least part of it invented by Fred Gosbee)
File: LaGo187

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