Now the Erie Canal, was more than just a creek Cuz over three hunna miles is pretty chic My name is Harry and my rhymes on fleek Spit more facts than Orlie and Zeke Now back in 1819, the economy dove Sank lower than ya test average in Falkove So my homie James Geddes said to Benjamin Wright Bro, this whole Canal thing, you sure its all right? The economys bad, this could easily flop How we gonna build, if we dont have the guap? But Benjamin said, Nah listen to me Land transport takes too long, its kinda OD Mail is too slow, and I dont mean to be crass But it takes longer than Jacob coming to class So this is gonna be the best canal in town Well start at Albany, and work our way down We can end in Eerie, talk about a Great Lake Back to back waterways, like we channeling Drake Itll lower trading costs by 95 percent Bout to be the biggest thing since the Treaty of Ghent Well it took about 8 whole years to build And production costs shot up past 7 mil But James Geddes and Ben Wright were hanging pretty chill Cuz they knew they had Congress, payin the bill Now the merchants could get, where they wanted to go By just boating up the river, put the row in Monroe But it wasnt all good, Im finna go on a tangent Cuz some things they dont teach in American Pagent To work on the Canal was pretty intense But the workers only got about 85 cents For each day on the job not a great expense Minimum wage so low, werent making much sense So the Canal left some sittin poor and needy Workday longer than the homework Falkove posts on Weebly And to build the canal, they needed 36 locks And they needed clear land, so they fought the Mohawks Charged the Indians with their old school Glocks Then gave em blankets like, dont mind the smallpox But instead of land travel, merchants had a better option The Canal hit the country harder than the Monroe Doctrine So then, in the end, while some time it took Canal was so helpful, it had other countries shook First Manmade Canal went in every record book Wasnt a bigger Sea, till they came the Seabrook
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