Lyr Req: The Seagulls Still Follow on Freedom

Subject: Seagulls and freedom
From: MissMac
Date: 01 Jan 99 - 12:30 AM

Does anyone have the rest of the words to The seagull that follows on freedom?

In _______ bay there sat on the shore a yong girl who mourned for her love who's no more..

I have a hand written copy that is almost impossible to read.

MissMac

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: MissMac
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 12:05 AM

I still can't find this one and have re-tried the obvious word searches for it. I could post more of the lyrics if that would help. From what I can make out about this song it is a old salt and a young girl's conversation as to why the young men still fish for a living.

Thanks for searching your memory banks for this one.

MissMac

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 12:21 AM

More exact lyrics would help. Missed this one the first time around. I am pretty sure it might have a Child number, but an not enough of a Child Scholar to know for sure.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SEAGULLS STILL FOLLOW ON FREEDOM
From: MissMac
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 11:35 PM

Just after I asked here for the lyrics I checked with the person who gave them to me originaly to see if he had found a set with all the words and this is what he gave me. Seeing as how I could not find it on the DT I will post the words here. It is my first attempt at lyrics so I hope I have it right.

THE SEAGULLS STILL FOLLOW ON FREEDOM
(Pat and Joe Byrne)

In Plasenja bay there sat on the shore
A young girl who mourned for her love who's no more
For the pride of his manhood is the price of the sea
And the seagull still follows on freedom

She held out her hand To an old salt passed by
And she lifted her head with a tear in her eye
Saying "Sit and I'll tell you a tale of great woe
Whilst the seagull still follows on freedom"

I come from Toronto upon the main land
And there's the thing here that I don't understand
Like why are these young men still slaves to the sea
And the seagulls still follows on freedom

He said to the young maid as he held her soft hand
"The sea and it's fury are part of this land
And men who can't take it they better not stay
With the seagulls who follow on freedom"

Those men who count figures and count the cause lost
They see only the high sea and the lives it has cost
They don't see the life as we know it to be
Like the seagull who follows on freedom

So they cheat us and rob us and continue to say
That our only salvation is leaving the bay
But I'll soon be ninety and there's one thing I know
That the seagulls still follow on freedom

HMc

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 11:42 PM

Thanks for posting them Miss Mac.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: RichM
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:42 PM

I can't think of the seagull as a symbol of freedom.

They have day jobs!
Every morning just before dawn, I can see hundreds of them fly over after leaving the river, winging directly to the dump 20 miles away, and returning at dusk.

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:50 PM

LOL, Rich. Never thought of scavenging as a day job!

A

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM

The first verse could be Placentia Bay in Newfoundland

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 05:22 PM

Eeuuuoooooowwwww, who names a place Placenta Bay??

And seagulls do have a job - eco friendly alarm clock and guano production line. Plus explaining the... herm, "birds and bees" to an admiring audience of children aged 2-12 at Hastings Jack in the Green Mayday festival every year....

LTS

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 03:58 AM

Here in Juneau, I tend to be fondest of ravens- they seem to find life so interesting- but a fisherman friend of mine says that seagulls to him are the epitome of birdhood.

He is a troller and spends many days alone on the ocean. He said that if it weren't for visiting seagulls checking on him he would be a lonesome man.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: MMario
Date: 24 May 02 - 03:06 PM

everywhere I find this the music is listed as traditional (whereas the lyrics are attributed)

does anyone know what the tune is?

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: MMario
Date: 30 May 02 - 04:19 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 May 02 - 08:16 PM

Sorry I can't help with a tune to "Seagulls and Freedom" but perhaps you could use the tune from Gonads and Strife instead.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Seagulls and freedom
From: MMario
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 03:01 PM

refresh - still looking for a tune? anyone?