Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs

Subject: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 08:06 AM

Anyone know the lyrics and/or information on two eastern Canadian jail songs? (Who wrote them, when, etc)?

They are:

Pictou County jail (from Nova Scotia, starts something like 15 days in the Pictou county jail).

Prince County jail, (from western PEI, Summerside, starts something like "I'm spending my time in the Prince County jail) I suspect it is older than the above song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: Beer
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:24 AM

If you joined as a member there are several members from Nova Scotia who could help you on this. Like George from Chubecto, Bee, and others.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: GUEST,Bardford
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:30 AM

Looks like "Pictou County Jail" was written by this fellow: Don Haggart .
No lyrics on his site, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 11:07 AM

George Hamilton IV of A Rose and a Baby Ruth fame recorded it:

1974 Back To Down East Country. UK LSA 3200 RCA - Canada KCLI 0051
Back To Down East Country - Cape Breton Lullaby - Pictou County Jail - Fiddler's Green - Where The Blue Waters Foam - Peter Amberlay - Lismore Lady - T.C. Carry Me - The Little Boats Of Newfoundland - Shores Of PEI

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Sep 12 - 05:52 PM

Haggart singing Pictou County Jail on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbeTgLy2KA

Subject: LYRIC ADD
From: GUEST,#
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:22 PM

The following lyrics and chords are from https://guitarsongs.club/song/41217 The chords just there with no lyrics are--I expect--the music break.

30 Days in the Pictou Count Jail
DON HAGGART

E               A             E
The locked me away inside a little institution
    A                   B7             E    B7
Where broken hearts and minds were all I seen
E             A             E
There I sat alone until my sister came to see me
   A                B7             E
She brought me cigarettes and magazines

B7                              E
30 Days in the Pictou Country Jail

E                   A       E
I got to know the preacher who came by on the weekend
   A                   B7             E   B7
He talked with me and prayed with me a while
E                A                E
He would ask the Lord to bless and keep me out of trouble
   A             B7             E
The pain upon my face began to smile

B7                            E
30 Days in the Pictou County Jail

E                   A          E
A                     B7             E   B7
E                   A               E
   A                   B7             E

E                         A                  E
When night would come I’d think of home and how’d I like to be there
A          B7            E B7
Oh the lady that I left behind
E                A          E
She was waiting patiently baking pies and weeping
A                   B7             E   
The greatest gal that I could ever find

B7                            E
30 days in the Pictou county jail
B7                            E
30 days in the Pictou county jail

B7                            E
30 days in the Pictou county jail

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: GUEST,Cheapfeet
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 01:02 PM

Hello, I am a Western PEIer currently collecting Western-PEI themed songs. I would be very interested in hearing more about the "Prince County Jail" song.
Ed T, I have started a Western Pei Songsters and Musicians group at Facebook if you have any interest.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eastern Canada jail songs
From: GUEST,#
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 01:39 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXx06-2mMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXx06-2mMo


That's the 45rpm released in 1972 by Jim + Don Haggard. A good bio follows.

http://www.45cat.com/biography/jim-and-don-haggart