Hello folks,

I am looking for some information on 2 songs currently in oral circulation in Newfoundland outport tradition.

CANOODLE-DOODLE: Sounds like a British Music Hall number. Goes like this:

I've never been so deep in love as what I am now
I haven't slept for weeks and weeks, I don't know what to do
It's Carrie MacIntosh the bonny wee lassie I adore...etc. etc.

The chorus goes:

I'm goin' to marry-arry
Sweet little Carrie-arrie
On the fifth, the twenty-fifth of Janu-anu-anuary
Once we canoodle-doodle
Right fol the doodle-oodle
On the fifth, the twenty-fifth of January-O.

The other one is called SOMEBODY'S WAITING. It's about a guy named Jack who is laughed at for leaving a pub too early--he takes his buddies back and shows them his "sweetheart" who is patiently waiting at home. It's his mother. The chorus goes:

There's somebody waiting for me
Someone who loves me I know
Someone who's wondering where I can be
Or what can be keeping me so
Somebody's heart is sad
Waiting so anxiously
There's a light burning bright in the window tonight
And there's somebody waiting for me.

I'd be grateful for any clues.