Jared MacLean - Lizzie's Canoe

This song is sung a cappella. The song is a humorous one about Bridgetown, a town near Newcastle. The bridge burned down and so the town got together and bought a barge (to use as a ferry) which they called Lizzie's canoe. This song has more cursing in it than most of those in the Manny collection.

Recorded by Stan Cassidy - Phone 1528 - for Radio and Electrical Service - 415 King Street, Fredericton, N.B. Lyrics as transcribed from this recording:There's a place they call bridge town you all know it well,Right close to Newcastle [a suburb I'll tell?] [a suburbal tale?] [a ??? Hell?]For the place got so hot that that bridge it burnt down,And the people have no way to get into town.The clan got together a scheme they did spawn,There was an old barge down on the St. John,So they bought that old barge from a circumcised Jew,And the name that they gave it was Lizzie's Canoe.The weather was late[?] it was late in the year,When Harley[?] [Wilk?] started to build them a pier,With the best of skilled labour to be found in the land,And all the equipment was at his command.<BR><BR>Oh, the first time saw it 'twas the dawn of the day,<BR>I thought at first glance twas some beavers at play,<BR>'Twas a bunch of old popple [i.e. poplars] covered with mildew,<BR>And tied to that woodpile was Lizzie's Canoe.<BR><BR>Elmer Scott was the captain he was in command,<BR>He was full of strong liquor he hardly could stand,<BR>So he called on big Branzer[?] but it was no use,<BR>For he went to Eelground to see his papoose.<BR><BR>He says if I stay here I'll sure go insane,<BR>There's no one to help me but Jordy Lorraine [?],<BR>And although he's a sailor and sailed on the sea,<BR>God knows he a bigger rum-sucker than me.<BR><BR>He cursed and he swore and his hair then he tore,<BR>He says I'll go home and I'll leave there no more,<BR>When the sun melts the ice on the Miramichi,<BR>May the goddamn founder[?] and go out to sea.<BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR>This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (024-08) and (079-07). 1948.10 <BR> <BR> 001-08 [[Category:M]]