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T:Red Iron Ore
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O: USA
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w:Com e-  all ye young fel-lers where ev-er ye be Come -  sit down be-side me and
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w:list-en to me I'll - tell you the truth with-out a-ny mis-take 'bout the
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w:rac-kets we had round the Blue Moun-tain Lake. Der-ry down down down der-ry down.
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W:Come all ye bold sailors that follow the lakes, 
W:On an iron ore vessel your living to make, 
W:I shipped in Chicago, bid adieu to the shore 
W:Bound away to Escanaba for that red iron ore.
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W:Derry down, down, down derry down. 
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W:In the month of September on the seventeenth day,  
W:Two dollars and a quarter was all they would pay,  
W:And on Monday morning a trip we did take,  
W:On a ship named the Roberts sailing out in the lake. 
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W:The packet she howled across the mouth of Green Bay, 
W:And before her cut water she threw the white spray, 
W:She rounded out San Point and her anchor let go, 
W:We furled in the canvas and the watch went below. 
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W:Next morning we hove alongside the Exile, 
W:We soon made her fast to that iron ore pile, 
W:They lowered the shutes which soon started to roar, 
W:They're fillin' the ship with that red iron ore. 
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W:Some sailors took shovels and others took spades, 
W:And some took to sluicing, each man to his trade, 
W:We looked like red devils, our backs they got sore, 
W:We cursed Escanaba and that red iron ore. 
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W:The dust got so thick you could scarce see your nose, 
W:It got in your eyes and it got in your clothes, 
W:We loaded the Roberts till she couldn't hold more, 
W:Right up to the gunnels with that red iron ore. 
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W:We sailed her to Cleveland, made fast stem and stern, 
W:And with our companions we'll spin a big yarn, 
W:Here's a health to the Roberts, she's strong and she's true, 
W:Here's a health to the bold boys who make up her crew.

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