Song from Amby Thomas's Songs and Stories of Deep Cove Cape Breton. Caledonia refers to the Caledonia Coal mines in Glace Bay. #3 is one of the pits.

WHEN FIRST I WENT TO CALEDONIA

When First I went to Caledonia
I got loading at Number three
And I got Boarding at Donald Norman's
He had a daughter who could make good tea

And it was me and my brother Charlie
The biggest shavers you ever did see
We speared eels in the month of April
And starving slaves on Scataree

I went to Norman's for a pair of brochan
A pound of soap and a cake of tea
But Norman said he would not give them
Till fish got plenty on Scataree

So I went over to their big harbor
Just on purpose for to see the spray
I spied a maiden from Bouladrie over
She seemed to me like the queen of may

Now if I had pen from Pennsylvania
And if I had paper of purest white
And if I had ink of the rosy morning
A true love not unto you I'd write

But I wish I was on the deepest ocean
As far from land as once I could be
A sailing over the deepest ocean
Where a women's love would not trouble me

I'd lay my head to a cask of brandy
And its a dandy I do declare
For when I'm drinking I'm seldom thinking
How I can gain that young lady fair

When First I went to Caledonia
I got loading at Number three
And I got Boarding at Donald Norman's
He had a daughter who could make good tea

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