Frontier Ballads

A Collection of Traditional Western Songs
with Lyrics & Illustrations

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	THE OLD CARRY
	(Near the mouth of the Missouri River is a narrow tongue of land between that stream and the Mississippi over which the Sioux Indians, on their expeditions in early days, were accustomed to transport their goods and boats in order to avoid the long journey around the point by water. Hence the locality received its name, Portage des Sioux.)
	R OUND by tawny, foam-lipp'd streams, Portage des Sioux, In thy name what romance dreams, Portage des Sioux! But thy trails, once deep and worn, Now lie gulfed in rustling corn, And thy forest depths are shorn, Portage des Sioux.
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