Ohio Company (song)

The Ohio Company is a song written by Pittsburgh composer Robert Schmertz AbOUT the Ohio Company. It was arranged by Frank C. Jarema.

Lyrics

Young man if you would westward go And make yourself a fee There's money in the trapper's trade And opportunity And you will be well found my lad A cherished employee Of the gloriOUS, virtorious Ohio Company!

CHORUS: It's ten percent for you my lad And twenty percent for me And the rest is for the glorious Ohio Company!

Lord Dinwiddie has put his seal Upon our company And for the King he governs our Virginia Colony And so we're fully certified By the British sovereignty And we'll sell our furs and peltries to The petty bourgeoise!

CHORUS It's twenty percent for you my lad And thirty percent for me And the rest is for the glorious Ohio Company!

Young man if fighting you enjoy brawl or j amboree There's men from Philadelph-i-ay With whom you'll not agree You'll have some lovely fighting As the cherished employee Of the glorious, uproarious Ohio Company!

CHORUS It's thirty percent for you my lad And forty percent for me And the rest is for the 'glorious Ohio Company!

Across the endless mountains With a pack horse you will go You'll come upOn three rivers In a valley wide and low You'll barter with the Indians Exercise cupidity For the profit of our glorious Ohio Company

CHORUS It's forty percent for you my lad And fifty percent for me And the rest is for the glorious Ohio Company!

The Indians have a famous queen And she is royalty She governs all six nations In the Indian territoree Her name is Allaquippa And she will exact a fee In muskets, rum and wampum From our glorious company!

CHORUS It's fifty percent for you my lad And sixty percent for me And the rest is for the glorious Ohio Company!

There's Iriquois and Seneca And Mingo and Shawnee You'll buy their mink and otter skins To send across the sea And as they skin the beaver Skin the red skins lad, for me And the glorious, notorious Ohio Company!

CHORUS It's sixty percent for you my lad And eighty percent for me And the rest is for the glorious Ohio Company!

When you come back to Virginia A rich man you'll surely be You can pick and choose your doxies For to bounce upon your knee You May Be a director and A life long legatee Of the glorious , notorious Ohio Company!

CHORUS It's eiGht y percent for you my lad And ninety percent for me And the rest is for the Glorious Ohio Company!