David Francey Ashtabula (Lake Erie, Ohio)

David Francey sings about Ashtabula Ohio on Lake Erie, coal port, home of March Playmate 1960 Sally Sarell. Francey's voice is warm and inviting more than I've ever heard in his live performances. The images are borrowed from actual photos of Ashtabula found online. The song is from his album "The Waking Hour". This is a labour of love, should you have claim to any of this please state it in the comments. That would be kindly appreciated.

David Francey & Mike Ford - Seaway
2009, Laker Music/SOCAN (Canada)

You can learn more about David Francey at http://www.davidfrancey.com/. You can learn more about Mike Ford at http://www.mikeford.ca/. You can purchase a copy of Seaway from CDPlus, or you can download the album from iTunes.

Lyrics: Ashtabula (Ohio)

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
http://www.davidfrancey.com/wakinghourinfo.html#AshtabulaLyrics

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• Ashtabula
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[countrymamasc75]

I was born in Ashtabula. Song bring back memories. Great pics too.

[pigshitpoet]

@countrymamasc75 i've never been to ashtabula, but i felt transported and inspired by the music. what was it like growing up in a small harbour town? the closest thing we had to this was a tv show called the beachcombers. what was the local cafe called back then? small town cages were sometimes like town meeting halls.

[pigshitpoet]

Of consuming interest, the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs, Google is a soul devouring coal eating nuclear shitpile

[MusicLover44004]

How cool....great song. My current hometown.