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Thread #63708 Message #1642568
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Jan-06 - 10:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Girls of Newfoundland
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Girls of Newfoundland
"I'se the Bye that Builds the Boat," sheet music, 2 midis and eight verses at Gest "Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador"
GEST
Collected in 1951 by Ken Peacock and published in "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports," 1965, vol. 1, p. 64, with music. First published in Gerald S. Doyle, 1955, "Old-Time Songs of Newfoundland."
Note: 'Flake' (verse 2) is a platform covered with pieces of bark (rinds) on which the filleted cod are spread to dry.