Origins: Bay of Fundy (Gordon Bok)

Subject: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: GUEST,Jim in Africa
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 09:53 AM

Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. Heard a song last Sept driving near Univ of Delaware that has stuck in my head ever since. Sung by a guy with a really deep gravel voice, the only refrain that I remember has him as a seafaring salty dog, and goes "I don't mind the rain and cold, I just can't stand the growin' old". Other verses echo similar sorts of sentiments, though I can't recall the exact lyrics. I know that this isn't much of a thread to grab onto, but any suggestions as to the song title or other details would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: Barbara
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 10:06 AM

Could it be this one, Jim? For BAY OF FUNDY, click here.
Blessings,
Barbara

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BAY OF FUNDY (DT Lyrics)
(Gordon Bok)
(A) Am Dm / Dm C G / F C / Dm Am

All you Maine-men, proud and young,
When you run your Easting down,
Don't go down to Fundy Bay,
She'll wear your time away.

Fundy's long and Fundy's wide,
Fundy's fog and rain and tide;
Never see the sun or sky,
Just the green wave going by.

C G / G Am

Cape Sable's horn blows all day long;
Wonder why, wonder why.

Oh, you know, I'd rather ride
The Grenfell Strait or the Breton tide,
Spend my days on the Labrador,
And never see old Fundy's shore,

All my days on the Labrador,
And never see old Fundy's shore.

Cape Sable's horn blows all day long;
Wonder why, wonder why.

Give her staysail, give her main,
In the darkness and the rain;
I don't mind the wet and cold,
I just don't like the growing old.

I don't mind the wet and cold,
I just don't like the growing old.

Cape Sable's horn blows all day long;
Wonder why, wonder why.

East-by-North or East-North_East,
Give her what she steers the best;
I don't want the foggy wave
To be my far and lonely grave.

I don't want the foggy wave
To be my far and lonely grave.

Cape Sable's horn blows all day long;
Wonder why, wonder why.

Cape Breton's bells ring the swells;
Ring for me, ring for me.

Words and music by Gordon Bok.
Recorded by Gordon on "Bay of Fundy," FSI-54
Copyright Folk Legacy Records, 1977
DC
"This is about a long and weary, windless trip from Maine around
to Halifax on a little black schooner that seemed to move only by
the slatting of her gear. We had a coal stove in her, and the
foresail used to downdraft onto the charlienoble, turn the stack
into an intake and the cabin into a chimney. So, with the
coalgas and the wet, the offwatch was not much more comfortable
than the deadwatch." - GB

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: kendall
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 10:30 AM

Gordon does have a deep voice, but, I certainly wouldn't call it "gravelly"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: Stewie
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 10:38 AM

It's available on CD - Gordon Bok 'North Wind's Clearing' Folk Legacy CD 1005. Go to Sandy's Folk Legacy site for details.

http:www.folklegacy.com

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: MMario
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 10:40 AM

but it could have been someone covering his song, no?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: GUEST,Selkie O
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 10:55 AM

The lyrics go like this: "I don't mind the wet and cold, I just don't like the growing old." It was from a letter to Gordon written by his brother who was fishing on Vinalhaven. Check out www.gordonbok.com for more info on the music and recordings of Gordon Bok.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: GUEST,Jim in Africa
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 11:13 AM

THANKS TO ALL - THAT'S THE ONE!!! Wow, that was quick. I'll order it now...... God bless this internet of Al Gore's, eh?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'I don't mind the rain & cold...'
From: kendall
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 04:07 PM

Oh yeah? well Dan Quayle would have claimed it first if he had thought of it, but, he was busy looking up Phoenix on a map of California.