The Hennepin Avenue Bridge-Brian Setzer

[ti:The Hennepin Avenue Bridge] [ar:Brian Setzer] [al:13] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Hennepin Avenue Bridge - Brian Setzer [00:20.92]Father Hennepin went down to Bennigan's [00:25.09]To discuss the construction of the Hennepin bridge [00:29.16]He had time to kill down by the flour mill [00:33.21]So he planned a picnic lunch on St Anthony main [00:38.67] [00:55.56]Now father Hennepin he was notorious [00:59.84]And he liked a little drunk down at Nye's Polanaise [01:03.83]His explorations were more than glorious [01:08.07]So they planned to build a bridge [01:10.10]That would feature his name [01:13.40] [01:21.14]Well first niagara and then St Antony's [01:25.49]Were discovered by the fella with the Hennepin name [01:29.46]But when the lock was filled on the lower falls [01:34.14]Everyone was shoppin' on the Nicollet mall [01:39.00] [01:40.61]And when the rope was cut on the Hennepin [01:44.53] [01:45.50]Father Louis had a most unusual plan [01:49.14]He would take a dip in the Mississippi [01:53.25]He would dive from the centre and swim to the dam [01:58.50] [02:13.73]When the time had come and he took the plunge [02:17.60] [02:18.31]Everybody screamed my god what has he done [02:21.80]And though he tried to swim the current carried him [02:25.82] [02:26.50]Closer and closer to the brink of the falls [02:31.42] [02:32.99]The people lined the banks of the Mississippi [02:36.81] [02:37.50]To watch father Hennepin go over the edge [02:41.22]The people there that day they all swear they say [02:45.47]Father Hennepin was laughin' as he fell to his death