Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:48 AM

Bluenose Girl-

"these words your sure to here"

Most likely you meant to type:

"these words you're sure to hear"

It ain't easy to get lyrics tidied up!

Thanks! We're making progress.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: maeve
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 03:09 PM

This one was pretty much settled by Beer's efforts, with fine-tuning help from Charley Noble and Bluenose Girl...corrections applied below:

Subject: Lyr Add: RORY GET YOUR DORY (Eddie LeGere)
From: Beer - PM
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 09:31 AM

RORY GET YOUR DORY
(Eddie LeGere)

In Cape Breton Island, down Nova Scotia way,
Lies a little fishing village; they call it Pleasant Bay.
No one ever hurries there; a day seems like a year;
And any time you're passing by, these words you're sure to hear:

Oh, Rory, get your dory out. There's herring in the bay.
Do your fooling in the winter time. There's still no time to play.
Why, what good is blue potatoes, without herring on the plate?
So pull up your suspenders, b'y, or perhaps we'll be too late.

Big Willie Dan MacDonald, and Rory John McNeil,
Are the finest herring fisherman that ever used the creel.
Known to all Cape Bretoners, from the Bay to Whitney Pier,
Band when Willie Dan meets Rory John, these words you're sure to hear:

Oh, Rory, get your dory out. There's herring in the bay.
Put on your old sou'wester, b'y, and we'll be on our way.
A school of herring in the sea, just waiting to be caught.
Wee Alex needs a pair of shoes and the baby needs a cot.

Words by: Eddie LeGere
Recorded in Toronto 1966 but written in the early 50s according to what Eddie told me.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,I learned this version in
Date: 14 Mar 16 - 10:27 PM

Oary Dory get your dory, there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory, get your dory, there are herring in the bay
For the herring are like silver shining in the sea
And all that shining silver is there for you and me.

Oary Dory, get your dory, there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory, get your dory, for the herring swim away
For the Herring like the white gull want to live and not to die
And the Herring, like the white gull, have wings on which to fly

Oary Dory got his dory and he went out on the bay
Oary Dory got his dory but the herring'd gone away
For there was oil upon the waters and tankers at the docks
And the herring like the white gull lay dead upon the rocks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,Hawk Hickok Huckman
Date: 20 Apr 18 - 01:33 PM

Hi.Writing a book on dories and want to use these song lyrics in the book with credit to Eddie Legere. Can you advise me on whom I might need to get permission from? [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 May 18 - 05:06 PM

You can hear Eddie LeGere singing RORY GET YOUR DORY at YouTube. The sound quality is so poor that I'm unable to verify that the lyrics posted above are correct in every detail, but at least you can hear what the tune sounds like.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,Kevin
Date: 14 May 19 - 01:38 PM

My dad used to tell me this as a nursery rhyme when I was a tot:

"Rory in the dory and the dory upset. Rory got a duckin' but he didn't get wet"

Same rhythm and cadence as the OP's phrase. Part of the same nursery rhyme? I only ever heard the two lines above but now I wonder if there is more to it.

My dad's also from Nova Scotia (Cape Breton).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 20 - 07:53 PM

It was a phrase Captin Dick Murphy used to say.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 09:14 AM

Oary Dory


Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
For the herring are like silver shining in the sea
And all that shining silver is there for you and me

Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory get your dory, for the herring swim away
For the herring like the white gull want to live and not to die
And the herring like the white gull have wings on which to fly

Oary Dory got his dory and he went down to the bay
Oary Dory got his dory but the fish had gone away
For there was oil upon the water and tankers at the docks
And the herring and the white gull lay dead upon the rocks

Oary Dory sell your dory; get a job a-pumping oil
Oary Dory sell your dory, and forget this life of toil
For the herring and the white gull they do not riches bring
No the herring and the white gull they do not mean a thing

Ovary Dory got his dory and he went out on the bay
Ovary Dory got his dory, didn’t know just what to say
But out on that shining water, he knew deep in his soul
He needed that clean water with its fish and herring gull

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,Alan Furth
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 09:26 AM

Oary Dory


C                            G                                           C
Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
C                            G                                           C
Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
C                                  F       G                   C
For the herring are like silver shining in the sea
C                            F          G                         C
And all that shining silver is there for you and me

Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory get your dory, for the herring swim away
For the herring like the white gull want to live and not to die
And the herring like the white gull have wings on which to fly

Oary Dory got his dory and he went down to the bay
Oary Dory got his dory but the fish had gone away
For there was oil upon the water and tankers at the docks
And the herring and the white gull lay dead upon the rocks

Oary Dory sell your dory; get a job a-pumping oil
Oary Dory sell your dory, and forget this life of toil
For the herring and the white gull they do not riches bring
No the herring and the white gull they do not mean a thing

Oary Dory got his dory and he went out on the bay
Oary Dory got his dory, didn’t know just what to say
But out on that shining water, he knew deep in his soul
He needed that clean water with its fish and herring gull

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 11:40 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-mz8VOroA

Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)

However, it has only four stanzas, two of which are the chorus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 11:45 AM

The last post is I think the recording from which Beer got the lyrics that were done up by Maeve at 14 Sep 12 - 03:09 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 12:40 PM

Like Charlie, I remember Bill Bonyun singing this, but I'm pretty sure it was the "Oary Dory" version. I recall him singing something tha sounded like "Oh Redory, get your dory.." and the tune was not as jolly as the one on youtube
cheers- j

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: ripov
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 04:03 PM

Asouwester,apart from being a strong wind was also an article of clothing, like the cape that cyclists wear, that we used to call an 'oilskin'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 03:31 AM

I'm totally amazed rtnw bc I was just telling someone today how my grandfather Duncan J.MacDonald would tell us stories and they'd sing old Irish and Scottish songs after dinner and after Gpa and my uncle,aunty and dad had a couple shots of aftr dinner scotch,they'd say(yell out)these words...
"There's a rory in the dory and a herring in the bay!"...
My great grandfather's name was Alexander Roderick MacDonald.So I thought this thing they were saying was made up by the our family only about him!! I thought they were talking about Great Gpa!They were from Nova Scotia.
Well when I was talking about this w/someone today,they suggested I go to lyrics.com,so I did and come to find that others have said this too!Not just our family.Gpa and my dad are passed on now.My dad,Dalton Ian Brennan MacDonald,would have been 79 this month.
May God Bless You All??

Sincerely,
Christina MacDonald

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rory Get Your Dory (Eddie LeGere)
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 05:05 PM

My name is Robert named after my farther’s Brother. My mom nicked named me “Rory” when I was born in 1948. She named me after the Irish ditty “ Rory get your Dory there’s a Herring in the Bay. So it was somewhat popular in the late 1940’s.