If I were annoyed with a termagant wife,
Whose tongue was the bane of my every-day life,
To try to get rid of her pestilent clatter,
I’d live on the brink of this great fall of water.

Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848

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Loud roars the waters O,
‡‡ Loud roars the waters O,
When I come to the Falls again,
‡‡ I hope they will not spatter so.

Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848

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S.:

Fall on, fall on, ye mighty Falls ―
I’m going now to make my calls;
When I come back I hope I will
Just find you falling, falling still.

M.:

But lest you lose your chance, my friend,
You’d better stay and see the end;
Lake Erie’s “packing up her awls”
Perhaps she may discharge the Falls.

Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848

This link takes you to the scanned version of  the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust

See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.