"An old mule named Sal" - words from "The Erie Canal". "An old mule named Sal" - words from "The Erie Canal".
It is on his album Rocket Ship Beach.
Burl Ives was a folksinger and actor-- not a songwriter. The Erie Canal song was written long before Mr. Ives, and presumably sometime after 1825 when the canal was built. There were a lot of songs written about the Erie and other canals, just like there would be a lot of songs written about trains after trains made canals obsolete.
The summer of 2002, in support of the "Cocky" CD. He played the Erie Civic Center and was totally awesome!
The organizers of the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival attempted to hold it in Indiana, but were stopped through a series of court injunctions. The Festival was held on Bull Island, a bit of land that was on the Indiana side of the Wabash River, but was legally part of Illinois.
The Welland Canal.
The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal was not cemented.
the Erie canal
No the Erie Canal did not join the Ohio River. But New York was not the only state that built canals. The state of Ohio also built canals. The Miami and Erie Canal went to the Ohio River. The Erie and Ohio Canal also reached the Ohio River. Neither of these canals were as successful as the Erie Canal.
The Ohio and Erie Canal linked Cleveland with Lake Erie.
the Erie Canal
The original length of the Erie Canal was 363 feet.
The Erie Canal is in the state of New York.
The Erie Canal connects Albany, The Hudson River, Lake Erie, Buffalo, and everything in between.
The Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie.
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