Skinner on the Dock

DESCRIPTION: The singer leaves Lockport (on the Erie Canal), curses out Skinner, and describes some of his crewmates on the canal boat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: bawdy canal moniker
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, pp. 466-467, "Skinner on the Dock" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [19 words]: Legman in Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms posits that these are the "lost" first verses of "The Erie Canal." - EC
File: RL466

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