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+====== The Bigler's Crew ======
+THE BIGLER'S CREW
+Come all my boys and listen, a song I'll sing to you,
+It's all about the Bigler and of her jolly crew.
+In Milwaukee last October I chanced to get a sight
+In the schooner called the Bigler belonging to Detroit.
+cho: Watch her, catch her, jump up on her juber ju,
+Give her the sheet and let her slide,
+The boys will push her through;
+You ought to seen us howling,
+The winds were blowing free,
+On our passage down to Buffalo
+From Milwaukee.
+It was on a Sunday morning about the hour of ten,
+The Robert Emmett towed us out into Lake Michigan;
+We set sail where she left us in the middle of the fleet,
+And the wind being from the southard, oh, we had to give her sheet.
+Then the wind chopped round to the sou-sou'west and blew both
+fresh and strong,
+But softly through Lake Michigan the Bigler she rolled on,
+And far beyond her foaming bow the dashing waves did fling,
+With every inch of canvas set, her course was wing and wing.
+But the wind it came ahead before we reached the Manitous.
+Three dollars and a half a day just suited the Bigler's crew.
+From there unto the Beavers we steered her full and by,
+And we kept her to the wind, my boys, as close as she could lie.
+Through Skillagalee snd Wabble Shanks, the entrance to the Straits
+We might have passed the big fleet there if they'd hove to and wait;
+But we drove them on bebefore us, the nicest you ever saw,
+Out into Lake Huron from the Straits of Mackinaw.
+We made Presque Isle Light, and then we boomed away,
+The wind it being fair, for the Isle of Thunder Bay.
+But when the wind it shifted, we hauled her on her starboard tack
+With a good lookout ahead for the light at the Point Au Barques.
+We made the light and kept in sight of Michigan North Shore
+A-booming for the river as we'd oftimes done before;
+When right abreast Port Huron Light our small anchor we let go
+And the Sweepstakes came alongside and took the Bigler in tow.
+The Sweepstakes took eight in tow and all of us fore and aft,
+She towed us down to Lake St. Clare and stuck us on the flats.
+She parted the Hunter's tow-line in trying to gived relief
+And stem and stern went the Bigler into the boat called Maple
+Leaf.
+The Sweepstakes then she towed us outside the River Light,
+Lake Erie for to roam and the blustering winds to fight.
+The wind being from the southard we paddled our own canoe,
+With her nose pointed for the Dummy she's hell-bent for Buttalo.
+We made the Oh and passed Long Point, the wind was blowing free.
+We howled along the Canada shore, Port Colborne on our lee
+What is it that looms up ahead, so well known as we draw near?
+For like a blazing star shone the light on Buffalo Pier.
+And now we are safely landed in Buffalo Creek at last,
+And under Riggs' elevator the Bigler she's made fast.
+And in some lager beer saloon we'll let the bottle pass,
+For we are jolly shipmates and we'll drink a social glass.
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