Last Trip in the Fall

DESCRIPTION: "At Nick Hert's mine near Trenton, where we put on eighty tons... we kept right on a-moving... And landed safe in Cleveland, Where we laid up for the fall." The singer tells of cold weather on the Ohio-Erie canal in fall, but will stay with the work
AUTHOR: probably Pearl R. Nye
EARLIEST DATE: 1971 (OHS)
KEYWORDS: ship travel canal
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Salt-BuckeyeHeritage-OhiosHistory, pp. 67-68, "Last Trip in the Fall" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: [no author listed], Scenes & Songs of the Ohio-Erie Canal, Ohio Historical Society, 1971, "Last Trip in the Fall" (1 text, 1 tune, from Pearl R. Nye)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Between Me and the Wall" (tune, according to Salt)
File: OHSLTitF

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