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Lyrics for Lost On The Lady Elgin by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Lost On The Lady Elgin | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 201 | | | | Lyrics: | LOST ON THE LADY ELGIN
(Henry Clay Work)
Up from the poor
man's cottage, forth from the mansion door;
Sweeping across the waters and echoing 'long the
shore,
Caught by the morning breezes, Borne on the evening gale;
Cometh a voice of
mourning, a sad and solemn wail.
cho: Lost on the Lady Elgin! Sleeping to wake no
more!
Number'd in that three hundred, who failed to reach the shore.
Oh! 'Tis
the cry of children
Weeping for parents gone;
Children who slept at evening
But
orphans awoke at dawn.
Sisters for brother weeping,
Husbands for missing wives
---
Such are the ties dissever'd
With those three hundred
lives.
cho:
Staunch was the noble steamer,
Precious the freight she
bore;
Gaily she loosed her cables,
A few short hours before.
Grandly she swept our
harbor,
Joyfully rang her bell;
Little thought we e'er morning
'Twould toll so sad a
knell.
cho:
The Lady Elgin, a side-wheel excursion boat that cruised Lake
Michigan,
collided with a lumber steamer on a trip from Milwaukee to Chicago in
1860.
@sailor @death @wrecks
filename[ LDYELGN
play.exe LDYELGN
play.exe
LDYELGN2
(folk-processed melody}
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