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The lyric,”like Eliza on the ice…” from Company refers to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was the basis for a very popular stage version by George Aiken in the late 1800’s. The lyric srefers specifically to when Eliza crosses an icey river to escape being captured by the slave master.
