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 bourgeoisie!

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
A 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 packhorse 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 Aliquippa
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 Iroquois 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 redskins 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 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!