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A small picture of an Ohio coal port on the south shore of Lake Erie. I wrote it at Kelli O'Neill's cottage in Madison. -- David Francey

(June 15, 2003. Madison, Ohio)

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Ashtabula

Lead Vocal: David Francey
Bouzouki, Percussion, Backing Vocal: Kieran Kane 
Guitar: Kevin Welch
Accordion: Fats Kaplin

Kelli drove us down the lake
On a bright Ohio day
And we looked across the railway yards
At the hoppers painted grey
That coal train from Kentucky, man 
She's come a long long way
Down in Ashtabula
On a sunny summer's day

Walked down to the harbour
Down to the harbour side
Where the coal was piled up waiting
High and black and wide
And it's waiting for a laker, man
To carry it away
Down in Ashtabula
On a sunny summer's day

And the tilting bridge 
Itself swings back
And sail is given way
And the cobbled streets
That climb the hills
Are fading red to grey

In the maritime museum
So high above the waves
The pictures of the past recalled
In black and white and grey
But the Masters and the ships are gone
Long since passed away
Down in Ashtabula
On a sunny summers day

by David Francey

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