Subject: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: KBradbury@Newtel.com Date: 18 Jul 97 - 10:20 AM I am looking for a link where I can find Irish Newfoundland songs, such as Old Flatrock Hills, Tiny Red Light, Sonny's Dream etc. If someone could direct me to the web site, I would appreciate it. Also any good Irish lyrics would be great as well. Thanks |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques Date: 18 Jul 97 - 11:24 AM As I mentioned in another thread, I have an old Newfoundland songbook. If you will advise me the list of traditional songs you need I'll try to send them to you. Sonny's Dream is not traditional, as I'm sure you are aware, but written by Ron Hynes when he was with the Wonderful Grand Band. I have it on CD in a newer version by him and I'll post the lyrics once I get a chance to write them done. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: dick greenhaus Date: 18 Jul 97 - 11:29 AM Tim- If you're sending out traditional songs, please send a copy to this forum-- That way everyone will have them. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques Date: 18 Jul 97 - 11:45 AM Sure thing! |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: KBradbury@newtel.com Date: 18 Jul 97 - 12:51 PM Tim, My brother is a musician and Irish Nfld. music is what he usually plays. Some of the songs he's looking for are as follows: (Not all of them are just Nfld. songs.)
The Loss of the Marion I bet you're sorry you asked!!!!!! Any help will be appreciated. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE STAR OF LOGY BAY From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 18 Jul 97 - 04:27 PM I'll look, but I don't recognize many of those there and those that I do are not Newfoundland in origin. I have to think that many of them are in the database, such as Wild Colonial Boy, which is Australian. Mary Mack is Scottish, I think, as is The Northern Lights of Aberdeen. Kelligrew's Soiree, as a matter fact, I just e-mailed in to be posted on the database. I don't know when it will be on.
If you wish, e-mail me your snail and I will mail to you a photocopy of the old Newfoundland songbook to which I have been referring. (The book was for free distribution back in 1955) It has the music as well as the words which should be a bonus to your brother. Note, note, note, that I am going away for two weeks so if I don't get your e-mail before then don't be surprised. Eventually I intend to post all the lyrics on the database when I find the time.
'Twas on the very next morning, he went to St. John's town
How could you be so cruel as to part me from my love?
So now I'll go a-roving, I can no longer stay
Now to conclude and finish, the truth to you I'll tell
"The Star of Logy Bay" is one of the most popular folk songs in Newfoundland, wherein all of the named places can be found. Numerous groups have done this traditional song, but this version is as sung by Jim Payne. Star of Logy Bay (withy MIDI) in DT |
Subject: Lyr Add: SONNY'S DREAM (Ron Hynes) From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 18 Jul 97 - 05:17 PM SONNY'S DREAM (Ron Hynes)
Sonny lives on a farm, on a wide-open space
Chorus (Chorus)
Sonny carries a load, though he's barely a man (Chorus)
Sonny's dreams can't be real; they're just stories he's read (Chorus twice to end) This is the version as recorded by Ron Hynes on "Face To The Gale", but he's done other versions. He did it originally when he was with The Wonderful Grand Band. Unfortunately, I got my CD second hand and it is missing the liner so I can't give you the proper copyright information. It has also been recorded by other Canadian singers, including Valdy. Other versions include an extra verse, which if memory serves me correctly goes like this:
It's a hundred miles to town, and Sonny's never been there Sonny's Dream (with MIDI) in DT |
Subject: Lyr Add: KELLIGREW'S SOIREE (J. Burke) From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 18 Jul 97 - 05:20 PM KELLIGREW'S SOIREE (J. Burke)
You may talk of Clara Nolan's ball
CHORUS
Oh, I borrowed Cluney's beaver,
CHORUS:
Oh, when I arrived at Betsy Snook's
CHORUS:
The Saratoga Lancers first,
CHORUS:
Crooked Flavin struck the fiddler
This is a popular Newfoundland folk song written by Johnny Burke in the 1920's, closely based on an older New York Irish song called "The Irish Jubilee", which documents a similar party and lists the guests and bill of fare. This version of The Kelligrew's Soiree comes from "Old Time Songs of Newfoundland,” 1955 edition. Kelligrew's Soiree (with MIDI) in the DT |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 18 Jul 97 - 05:28 PM Are you sure the song isn't Patrick Fagan? A music hall song, I think, and the Irish Rovers did a version ages ago. The chorus, as I recall, and it has been a while, goes
Hello, Patrick Fagan, you can hear the girls all cry |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: KBradbury@newtel.com Date: 21 Jul 97 - 11:31 AM Tim, Here is my mailing address, soyou can forward a copy of the book. Greatly appreciated.
K. Bradbury P.O. Box 337 Torbay, Nf A1K 1E4 |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: LaMarca Date: 21 Jul 97 - 02:22 PM Thanks for the words to Sonny's Dream, Tim. I love it, and I've been singing it ever since I learned it from Claudine Languille(sp?) of Touchstone, who used to sing it in concert, including the 4th verse (which she sang 3rd), crediting Ron Hines. I've never heard Ron's own version, but heard Jean Redpath do a simply dreadful rendition on Prairie Home Companion a few years ago (Country-Western just isn't her style...) My husband can't stand the song, so I don't sing it very often... I have a bunch of song collections from the Maritimes, and will see if I can find any of the other songs requested, too. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 08 Aug 97 - 10:37 AM Been away on vacation to the Maritimes for the last two weeks, so I am just getting around to checking things. I sent your song book, K., so you should be getting it soon. There are a bunch in there that I have never heard sung in my life. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 12 Aug 97 - 09:54 PM Gerald S. Doyle Ltd., purveyors of castor oil and other essentials, published Old Time Songs and Poetry of Newfoundland in 1927, and by 1978 it had gone into its fifth edition. Perhaps this is the book Tim is referring to. The edition I have ('78) has 31 songs and half a dozen ballads. Included are such as Ticklecove Pond, Hard Hard Times, Homeward and Harbor Le Cou, all recorded by Ed McCurdy on an album in the late 50s. Songs like The Old Flat Rock Hills and Tiny Red Light are rarer, but are still sung in parlours around St. Mary's Bay, at least. They can be heard at the annual Rampike Folk Festival in Mt. Carmel, S.M.B., in the beer tent, if not on stage. If you are desperate for the OFRH and TRL words, write to my cousin, Mary Nolan, Box 200, Mt. Carmel, SMB, Newfoundland. Another great live singing source is her brother-in-law, Harold Power, Box 245, Admiral's Beach, S.M.B., Nwfd. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Barry Finn Date: 12 Aug 97 - 10:15 PM LaMarca, do you know of Claudine's where abouts these days, she was a friend of my wife & her sisters & hasn't been seen since her Touchstone/Chapel Hill days. Hi John figures you'd be hanging around this thread. Barry |
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE CAPLIN COME IN From: John Nolan Date: 13 Aug 97 - 01:42 AM I'm still awake, so here, from faulty memory, are a few verses of "When the Caplin Come In," which is a great old Newfie song. When the Caplin Come In (part) Well now is the time when the men are all ready With oilskins and rubbers their work to begin You bet they'll be busy and work 'til their dizzy And live on the beach 'til the caplin are in. There's some are long-whiskered and some are bald-headed There’s Dicks, Jims and Billies, Joes, Georges and Jacks There's little wee laddies and big-headed Paddies All marching along with their nets on their backs They rush for the water like ducks to a puddle All floundering around like a crew in a wreck There’s motor boats steaming while Johnny is screaming Look, poor Uncle Tom has gone up to the neck. And here's Uncle Billy, he's fussin' and cussin' Me net it's all tattered and tangled and torn A tuck load o' caplin got hooked in a grapnel And now me old net is gone right from the horn. He's lost all his fishes, o boy he looks vicious He’s chawing tobacco; there's juice on his chin There’s spawn in his whiskers; his hands are all blisters He’s been on the beach since the caplin come in. And now it's all over, the men getting ready To hoist up their catch on their backs with a grin Come laddies and lassies to the beach with your glasses There’s sure to be fun now the caplin are in. There are a couple of other good verses in there somewhere, detailing dip nets and cast nets, bait tucks and boat hooks...and something about twisting and turning like eels in the brook. Bet that Harold Power knows. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjawues@netcom.ca Date: 14 Aug 97 - 01:36 AM It is indeed the same songbook, although mine dates from 1955. Is it now into a new edition? Do Doyle's still make cod liver oil? Do they still put those amusing ads about "your nerves" into it? I had understood that it was out of print. I got mine by badgering a Newfie to let me photocopy hers which she never lent. It took me years. The songs have been done by any number of people. Many are verbatim on the CD "Another Time The Songs of Newfoundland". Some, such as Cape St. Mary's and The Badger Drive, are on Stan Rogers "For The Family". Others were done by Ryan's Fancy years ago. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Karen Date: 18 Aug 97 - 02:32 PM Thanks, John for your relatives' addresses. I will drop them a line to see what info they can provide me with. Also, thanks Tim again for sending me that book. My brother has read it from cover to cover and is familiar with alot of the songs and thinks it's a life saver. Again thanks very much for you help. Cheers Karen |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Date: 28 Aug 97 - 02:41 PM You must get hold of a copy of "Come and I will Sing You" a collection of Nfld tunes collected by three women ethnomusicologists Morgan (Anita?) and Best ... it may be out of print now, but there's be copies in St John's. :) dennis |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 28 Aug 97 - 06:03 PM Another fascinating book is The Last Stronghold, detailing Scottish Gaelic traditions in the Codroy Valley of southwest Newfoundland. It reminds us that all the island's musical tradition doesn't hark back to Ireland. Researched and written in the 1980s by Margaret Bennett, formerly of the School of Scottish Studies, (who is known to many in the U.S. through her singing tours and teaching) the book devotes a chapter to "We Worked and We Sang" and concerns itself with waulking songs and ceilidh music. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 28 Aug 97 - 06:16 PM Pamela Morgan (formerly of Figgy Duff, that wonderful band) and Anita Best, folklorist and traditional singer. The songbook "Come And I Will Sing You" was published in the mid-eighties by Anita Best . (She and Pamela did a CD of traditional and not-often-heard folk songs of Newfoundland) Now that you mention it I don't have a copy and will see if my local indie book store can get it for me. I assume that the title of the book comes from the song that begins that way and lists items 1 to 12, the last being the 12 apostles if memory serves me right. Figgy Duff did a version years ago. Speaking of Newfs I am off to see Great Big Sea at a local saloon next week. The local Newfs have been sighted buying tickets twenty at a time so I got mine today. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: DrWord Date: 29 Aug 97 - 02:19 PM Great Big Sea are fabulous! My folk festival buddies & I saw them at West End Cultural Centre just after "up!" was released. Thanks, Tim, for the correction to Pam & Anita's names, but I was at work & my copy of the book's at home. I will post the ISBN here ... :) dennis |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Cliff Mcgann Date: 29 Aug 97 - 09:10 PM Another great book is Paul Mercier's Newfoundland Songs And Ballads in Print 1842-1974 which was published by Nf's Memorial U. Dept. of Folklore and is a fairly exhaustive discography of NF songs in print (no actual songs but a good way to track down printed versions of songs). Copies were still available from MUN (at least when I was there two years ago). If anyone is interested I can send info. Margaret Bennet's book on the Codroy also featured a tape (some copies)of songs which was put together by the school of Scottish Studies and featured Allan MacArthur. A matter of fact if one listens closely to Ashley MacIssac's Hi Hoe are you Today Cd you can hear Alan on one track ("those songs came from Scotland they were my mothers songs"). Anyway Newfoundland is a vurtual treasure trove of song even to this day so many great songs are underperformed and not published. If you can get your hands on the 3 volume Songs of the Newfoundland outports by Kenneth Peacock (a tape by Pigeon Inlet records was also released) you are in for a treat. Loads of great songs. Peacock took some liberty on translations etc. and wasn't fond of locally composed songs but still a good source for NF material. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 12 Sep 97 - 11:34 PM Karen: Thanks to cousin Mary, I now have the words to that melodramatic gem "The Tiny Red Light." If you still want em, I'll post em. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Sep 97 - 03:35 AM Please do, John. How about a new thread? |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Karen Date: 18 Sep 97 - 10:08 AM John, yes I would love to have the lyrics of The Tiny Red Light. Cheers Karen |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: wkailey@ball.com Date: 18 Sep 97 - 11:08 AM I am not a musician, but I collect recordings of Irish folk ballads. However, it is almost impossible to find any selection in stores, and most tapes I buy turn out to be bitterly disappointing--either instrumentals or medlies or just plain junk. Is there a good source (like a mail order catalog) for this sort of thing? Walt Kailey wkailey@ball.com |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 18 Sep 97 - 08:57 PM Joe and Karen: It's on my must do list for Saturday. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 19 Sep 97 - 09:49 AM Walt, I don't know where you are but there is a mail-order source in Canada, Back Porch Music, at http://www.bpm.on.ca/ You can order online or by mail. I just found out, to my pleasure, that they have the CD of Archie Fisher's Man With A Rhyme. When buying CD's, why not concentrate on recommended bands or artists, and get their CD's out of the folk section of the record store. I'm sure many here or on the Celtic music newsgroup could recommend good Irish artists. Many of those anonymous taped compilations are just nonsense recorded for the ordinary person to play on Saint Patrick's Day. |
Subject: Lyr Add: TINY RED LIGHT From: John Nolan Date: 21 Sep 97 - 08:22 PM TINY RED LIGHT (according to Mary Nolan, Mt. Carmel, Saint Mary's Bay, Nwfd.)
"Put a light in the window my darling," she said
Her father came home from his work with a cold,
"Oh father, dear father, don't take it away,
Early next morning came a knock on the door,
"We followed your tiny red light," said the man, Well, that's the song, which raises the question: How long was that sailor's arm that he could knock a door and while standing on the beach? But that's a minor point. The song is important because it represents a watershed - it is still loved by the old-time, sentimental, family-oriented, down-around-the bay folks, and thought sappy by St. John's suburbanites, where Water Street is a cacophony of Irish music blaring out of tinny speakers every 50 feet to help sell Newfie kitch. The tune of Tiny Red Light is what has helped to preserve its popularity, at least in St. Mary's Bay, because it is an excellent waltz for the lounge bar crowd. Meanwhile, modern culture ever changes the bays. Last year, when I was home, the latest generation of McDonalds were buzzing up and down the Salmonier Arm on jet skis, driving my old aunt bananas.^^ |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Sep 97 - 04:55 AM John, thanks a lot for the "Tiny Red Light" lyrics. They're great. Now, any chance you can type up a midi file? I don't ask for much, do I??? Joe-Offer@msn.com |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 24 Sep 97 - 04:45 PM Joe, I would certainly oblige with the tune if I knew how to, and probably my Dell has the capability to make a MIDI file - I can certainly play other people's - but I am a dunce who even lacks the knowledge to make verse appear in separate lines. How about singing it over the phone? |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 25 Sep 97 - 02:24 AM Well, asking you to call would be asking a bit too much, John. thanks for offering, though. I'll find it in a songbook or recording somewhere, I'm sure. someday soon, I'm sure Max will have us all typing MIDI files. It's actually quite easy with Noteworthy Composer, 3 keystrokes or a couple of mouseclicks per note. Your can download the shareware program at this URL: http://www.ntworthy.com/composer/index.htm -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Nonie Rider Date: 26 Sep 97 - 06:19 PM So, do any of y'all know the source/details on the old camp song about canoeing? (Yes, I did check the database first, without luck.) It went something like:
Swiftly the paddles ply, We were told this was a Newfoundland song, but since it had pretty clearly been passed along a few times, I was never quite sure. Thanks! --Nonie |
Subject: ADD: Harbor Le Cou From: John Nolan Date: 27 Sep 97 - 09:42 AM As I rowed ashore from my schooner close by, A girl on the beach I chanced to espy, Her hair it was red and her bonnet was blue, And her place of abode it was Harbour Le Cou. |
Subject: Lyr Add: HARBOUR LE COU From: John Nolan Date: 27 Sep 97 - 10:01 AM Bert: The penny dropped. Thanks a lot. I'll finish off Harbour Le Cou, because I don't think it is in the database. Harbour Le Cou As I rowed ashore from my schooner close by, A girl on the beach I chanced to espy, Her hair it was red and her bonnet was blue, And her place of abode it was Harbour Le Cou.
2. Well, boldly I asked her to walk on the strand,
3. As we walked on the shore at the close of the day,
4. My ship she lay anchored far out on the tide,
5. As we passed a log cabin that stood on the shore,
6.And as I was parting this maiden in tow,
7. Well I looked at this damsel a-standing longside,
8. So come all ye young sailors who walk on the shore,
Tune: Same as Sweet Betsy from Pike, I think. Harbour Le Cou (with MIDI) in DT |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 27 Sep 97 - 07:44 PM It's usually sung "comrades" rather than shipmates, but that is a trivial variation. Ryan's Fancy, a Newfoundland band that is no more, used to do a good version of this on their live LP. You'll have it find it in a used vinyl shop as most regretably none of their LP's are out on CD. This is a shame as they were an excellent Newfoundland ( & Cape Breton) Celtic band. Perhaps there is some dipute about the masters. Fergus O'Byrne from the group has just recently released a CD with Jim Payne but I don't know if this song is on it as I haven't bought it yet. |
Subject: Lyr Add: AUNT MARTHA'S SHEEP From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 27 Sep 97 - 10:53 PM Incidentally, as John Nolan says there are other cultural traditions in Newfoundland. I once heard a Newfoundland fiddler who played in a style very much like the Cape Breton style. There are also the French and the English. Many Newfoundlanders trace their heritage back to Devon and that's where some of the songs came from. I'd like to find a recording on CD of the song The Boarding House on Federation Square. John, are you related to the Nolan that wrote and sang Aunt Martha's Sheep? Dick Nolan, I think his name was. Here are the lyrics -- someone can fill in the blank as to place name: AUNT MARTHA'S SHEEP
Come gather all around me and I'll sing to you a tale
Now if you pay attention, I know I'll make you laugh
We caught the woolly animal, and dragged her from her pen
Aunt Martha she got angry when she heard about her loss
The Mountie got the message, and started in to read
Well just a short while later, about twelve o'clock that night
He said "Sorry boys, your party, I really don't want to wreck,
He came right in and he sat right down and we gave him a piece of the meat
He said "Thanks a lot, you're a darn fine bunch and your promise I know you'll keep See thread on Aunt Martha's Sheep (click) |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 28 Sep 97 - 09:46 AM No relation to Dick Nolan, Tim. My branch of the family are the Tuneless Nolans (save Cousin Mary). My father was very fond of songs and poetry though, and committed a lot to memory when he was working in the lumber camps in Labrador in the 1930s. In fact the lumber camps acted like the Aberdeenshire bothys of the 1800s in being a crucible of poetry and music. In the 1950s, when I was a kid, my father still had fragments of verse stuck in his head like shrapnel. Harbor Le Cou was one. The Little Beggar Man was another - he knew most all of that (except the tune, naturally). He also used to mutter bits of verses from a lumber camp song/poem called "The Double-sledded Lad" sitting up on his logs, "as happy as a king." I asked Dick Swain once, when he was researching woodsmen's songs in Maine, if he has come across it - he hadn't, at least at that time, so it may be localized to Newfoundland/Labrador. Can Tim or anyone throw more light on this one? |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Bob Landry Date: 28 Sep 97 - 11:10 AM Tim, re Aunt Martha's Sheep, the place names were Carmanville and Joe Tuck's Hill. In an earlier thread I asked if anyone might have the lyrics to the two sequels to "Aunt Martha's Sheep" (the story may have reached epic proportions in Nfld.) I don't remember the titles but the first was about how the Monutie, who was actually a Newfie boy himself, had feigned ignorance at their first meeting and returned to catch the perpetrators. I heard this tune once while driving through Cape Breton many years ago. The second, which I've never heard and may be only a rumour, sings about the boys trying to pass on to their heavenly reward but finding themselves on trial defending themselves against the poor sheep (who, naturally, had made it to heaven) and other assorted witnesses. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 28 Sep 97 - 04:51 PM I've never heard the two sequels, although the original song sounds like something the villains might have pleaded in court in hope of a lighter sentence. I haven't heard that lumbering song, but I am trying to get a couple of Newfoundland songbooks through my local bookstore, which is trying to order them. I'll let you know if it is in there. I am also going to see what my local library has to offer. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Bob Landry Date: 28 Sep 97 - 11:33 PM Thanks, Tim. I'll keep an eye on this thread. I've got a few Newfie songbooks and an old Omar Blondahl record at home plus access to two Newfies in exile who are avid song collectors. Are there any tunes that you'd like for your collection? |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Linda (Walsh) Amos lcamos@usaor.net Date: 29 Sep 97 - 03:14 PM I left Newfoundland in '75; I haven't been able to find ANYONE in the US or Europe who knows the words to "Butcher Boy" - "In Dubllin city, where I did dwell ..." It was so hauntingly lovely, I world dearly love to be able to pass it on to my children. Does anyone know this? |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Sep 97 - 03:55 PM I KNEW "Butcher Boy" was posted recently, but a forum search under [butcher boy] came up with no results. Then I did a forum search under "butcher" and came up with lots of entries. It's the first entry form Alice in the "Women's song circle" thread. Good song. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:39 PM I knew it as "In Jersey City" |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 14 Oct 97 - 07:19 PM I bought the CD Wave Over Wave (Old And New Songs of Atlantic Canada) by Jim Payne and Fergus O'Byrne. It has a version of Double Sledder Lad on it, but unfortunately the lyrics are not provided. I'll try to listen and post. It's a good CD of eastern Canadian songs and shanties. It's on Duckworth Distribution, 02 50440. I bought it through Back Porch at http://ww.bpm.on.ca -- with which I have no connection except for buying CD's. Fergus O'Byrne used to be with Ryan's Fancy when they existed. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: John Nolan Date: 14 Oct 97 - 09:11 PM Thanks, Tim. I look foward to your posting, and may even prise open the sporran and buy the CD. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Nonie Rider Date: 15 Oct 97 - 01:27 PM If it's a sporran yuir wearin', don't be puttin' of vibratin' pagers intae't. This public service warning comes to you via several startled security guards at a convention in Scotland. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 26 Jul 99 - 06:42 PM Refresh so Newfoundland songs don't get put into BC thread. |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:42 PM My father-in-law is from Isle-Aux-Mort NFLD; and has several volumes of NFLD songs. I have asked him to lend them to me. If I can be of assistance to you please drop me a list of the ones you have trouble getting the lyrics for, and I will be happy to look them up for you. Should be in next week. Yours, Aye. Dave |
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics From: Barry T Date: 14 Jan 00 - 03:48 PM This is a link to what appears to be a fantastic resource about to be published... Songs of the Newfoundland Outports... Kenneth Peacock's collection in CD-ROM format!
When I inquired the manager advised that it would be ready "in the next month or two." I recommended that he drop by ye olde Mudcat forum to tell us when it has been released. |
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