any ideas for writing a limerick on the erie canal?
2007-03-13 14:48:01 · 4 answers · asked by idkkkk 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Erie Canal was built to connect the Hudson River Valley with Lake Erie, and the markets all around the Great Lakes region. It was both an engineering marvel, being 4 feet deep, 40 feet wide, and 326 miles long, and entirely dug by hand, but it was also one of the must financially successful ventures of its time. The canal was used more for the transportation of freight than passengers. The barges were pulled by either horses, mules, of oxen so it was almost a two week journey from end to end. Looking back it seems like being a "teamster" working on the canal would have been a glamorous, and romantic job, but actually it was very hard work.
2007-03-14 05:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by Peedlepup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe I haven't sung this song in about ten years and now I've posted it twice in ten minutes.
I've got a mule her name is Sal.
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal.
She's a good old worker and a good old pal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal.
We've hauled some barges in our day, filled with lumber, coal and hay
And we know every inch of the way from Albany to Buffalo.
Low bridge, everybody down.
Low Bridge, 'cause we're coming to a town
So you'll always know your neighbor,
You'll always know your pal
If you're ever navigating on the Erie Canal.
2007-03-13 15:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by Monc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about the origin of the song, but travel on the canal was by boat, and had nothing to do with mules.
2007-03-13 15:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by blakenyp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mules pulled the boats....Evinrude and Johnson had not been invented...
2007-03-13 15:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Paris Hilton 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋