Ohio Company (song)
# 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 jamboree
   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 eighty percent for you my lad
   And ninety percent for me
   And the rest is for the Glorious Ohio Company!
