Some of you may have heard Stompin' Tom do this song with k. d. lang's band on CBC some years ago. If you didn't, it's a merry uptempo song and dance. Gum boots are the large rubber boots that commercial fishermen wear on-board when working with the fish, although the name is sometimes used to denote those same rubber boots which the English call Wellies. By the sound of it the dance is in PEI.

THE GUMBOOT CLOGGEROO
(Stompin' Tom Connors)

Oh! we sailed away at the break of day
To pull traps in oil-skin trousers
On the "Suzie Jack", but tonight we're back
With a thousand pounds of lobsters.
Oh! Shanty Town, we're gonna tear you down
I got money comin' out of me stockins
Tonight I'm due to bushwack Sue
And take her to the Gum-Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum-Boot cloggin'.

Gimme fish and brewis, and qua-hog stew
And a bowl of clam chowder
Just let me reach for that Newfie Screech
When they diddle-up-the-fiddle jig louder
Hear the French girls sing and the guitars ring
And the squeeze box squeek-a-dee squawkin'
Me and my Sue gonna whoop-dee-doo
Take her to the Gum Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum Boot cloggin'.

There's "Boots" Bernard and the rough Richards
And the girls 'way down Tracadie
How many Bluenosers and Herrin'-Chokers
We just don't know exactly
Pack 'em all in tight and dance all night
Get the old barn dance floor just a-rockin'
But a ring-dang-doo for PEI Sue
And take her to the Gum Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum Boot Cloggin'.