Lyr Req: Aunt Martha's Sheep (Newfoundland)

Subject: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: GUEST,Robert in NB
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:54 PM

Hello!

I'm looking for the lyrics to this fun song, originally from Newfoundland, Canada. Its about some poachers who go after a cow but get a sheep instead. Know where I can get the words?

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 02:07 PM

It's here, I would have posted it, but includes a GIF! Wow!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: MMario
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 02:33 PM

it's also been discussed several times in the forum.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From:
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 05:30 PM

Apparently there are two songs which follow it, one of them by Dick Nolan himself.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Crowhugger
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 05:14 AM

Sorcha, or anyone else who figured out that link:

How do you get past all the commercial junk to the words of the song? All I get are ad banners and I see nothing to click to get at the Newfoundland Songs of the website name.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From:
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 07:21 AM

You wanted the other songs besides Aunt Martha's Sheep?

Newfoundland Songs - Titles

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Crowhugger
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 10:06 AM

George, that's the same website with the same banner blockade. What the heck do I do to get lyrics!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: MMario
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 10:56 AM

crowhugger - you should get a list of titles below the banner, click on a title and you get the words and midi.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 11:45 AM

I guess I don't understand--when I click on my link, it takes me straight to Aunt Martha's gif--all I have to do is scroll down. No problem with George's either, just scroll down and click on the title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From:
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 11:46 PM

Well, here's one of the sequels to Aunt Martha's Sheep

You Can't Fool a Newfoundlander

Subject: Lyr Add: AUNT MARTHA'S SHEEP (D Nolan & E Coles)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:02 PM

Copied from Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador:

AUNT MARTHA'S SHEEP
(Dick Nolan and Ellis Coles)

      G                             D             G
  Come gather all around me and I'll sing to you a tale,
                                    C               G
  About the boys in Carmenville who almost went to jail.
                                         C                G
  It happened on a November's night when all hands was asleep,
       G                                 D                   G
  We crept up over Joe Tulk's hill and stole Aunt Martha's sheep.

Now if you pay attention, I know I'll make you laugh.
They never went to steal the sheep. They went to steal the calf.
The old cow she got angry 'cause they woke her from her sleep.
We couldn't take any chances so we had to steal the sheep.

We caught the woolly animal and dragged her from her pen.
She says goodbye to the little lamb she would not see again.
She knew that those dark strangers soon would take her life.
In less than half an hour she felt that dreadful knife.

Aunt Martha she got angry when she heard about the loss.
She said she'd catch the robbers no matter what the cost.
Next morning just at sunrise, she to the office went,
And to the RCMP a telegram she sent.

The Mountie got the message and started in to read:
"This is from Aunt Martha telling an awful deed.
Last night my sheep was stolen, by whom I cannot tell.
I'd like for you to catch them and take them off to jail."

Just a short time later, about twelve o'clock that night,
We had the sheep a-cooking and everyone feeling tight.
The smell of mutton and onions no man could ask for more.
We were chug-luggin' Dominion when a Mountie walked in the door.

Said, "Sorry, boys. Your party I really don't mean to wreck.
I smelled the meat a-cookin' and I had to come in and check.
You see, the sheep was stolen and the thief is on the loose."
I said, "Come right in and join us, sir. We're having a piece of moose."

He said, "Thanks a lot," and he sat right down and I gave him a piece of the sheep.
"This is the finest piece of moose I knows I ever eat."
About two o'clock in the morning, he bid us all goodday.
"If we get any clues on the sheep, sir, we'll phone you right away."

He said, "Thanks a lot. You're a darn fine bunch, and your promise I know you'll keep.
And if everyone was as good as you, she wouldn't have lost her sheep."
After he left, we had the piece we had in the oven to roast.
We might have stole the sheep, boys, but the Mountie ate the most.

Subject: Lyr Add: YOU CAN'T FOOL A NEWFOUNDLANDER
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:10 PM

And here's the sequel:

YOU CAN'T FOOL A NEWFOUNDLANDER
(Ben Weatherby)

Here's the finish of the story I think that I should tell
About the b'ys in Carmenville who ended up in jail.
They went out on a caper as they went to steal a calf
And thought they fooled a Mountie, but the Mountie got the laugh.

As they told you in the story, the Mountie joined right in.
He had a feed of mutton and he thanked them with a grin.
"If I wasn't still on duty, well, I'd stay and have a beer,
For a finer bunch of b'ys I know I'll never find like here."

Now, when he left, they thought that they had seen the last of he.
They didn't know that in a while back to the house he'd be,
And that he wouldn't be alone; a friend would be with him,
And this time at the party, well, he'd wear a bigger grin.

Now as they watched him drive away, they all began to boast
To think they gave him mutton and he thought that it was moose.
A Mountie from the mainland, they knew they'd told him lies,
And drank a toast to the wool they pulled over his eyes.

They were drinking and were talking 'bout the sheep that they had took,
When above the songs and laughter they heard another knock.
They said, "Come on in and join us 'cause we're havin' quite a night."
But when the door came open, well, they got an awful fright.

In the doorway stood Aunt Martha who had come to claim her sheep,
And the man who stood beside her, he had boots upon his feet,
With stripes upon his trousers and a grin upon his face.
The Mountie from the mainland was a man from Harbour Grace!

So now they wish the mutton had come from other means,
For now instead of mutton they're eatin' pork and beans.
So if you see a man, and on his hat's a yellow band,
Don't think that you can fool him -- he might be from Newfoundland!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: little john cameron
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:36 PM

It was a dark and stormy night,i was in a boozin session wi' the aforementioned Dick Nolan.Times were a bit hard for the bold Dick at the time an' he wis tryin tae raise a few shekels.Ah wis admirin a stuffed fox or some kind o' animal that he had oan the mantlepiece."How much will ye gie me for it?he asked.Noo,ah wis thinkin mibbe he wid gie me it for nothin as ah didnae like it that much that ah wid buy it.
So anyway,needless tae say a deal wisnae struck.A few days later ah wis aff tae Toronto for a recordin session,so ah never heard how he wis daein for a week or so.Ane nicht the wife phones me an' says "Did ye hear aboot Dick?""Dinnae tell me he's deid"says me.
"Naw,he's got a million sellin record"Weel, ye can imagine the surprise ah got.Ane meenit he's starvin an' the next he at the tap o' the heap.
Jist gaes tae show it is a fickle business. ljc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: little john cameron
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:53 PM

Oops,it wis a gold record,no' a million seller.Sorry aboot that. ljc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:21 PM

Try NFLD for a bunch of other Nfld. songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:31 PM

Sorcha et al., I get 404 error notice; further along a statement that the site may have been removed. My dogs can't find any sheep here. Tried on Netscape also, since if I can't get it on one, sometimes it's on t'other

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:01 AM

Didn't notice Jim Dixon's click to website above his posting. My clickie is the same. The old ones are no longer valid.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aunt Marthas Sheep - Newfoundland
From: MediocreShepherd
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:22 AM

Thanks to Jim Dixon for the Lyrics of "You can't Fool a Newfoundlander". As a sheep farmer, I absolutely refuse to sing Dick Nolan's wonderfuls song Aunt Martha's sheep. Sing that song to a bunch 'o drinkers, and it will come back to haunt us poor shepherds. I always figgered someone had to be real dense to not know the difference between the taste of Moose and Mutton. Would any mainlanders confuse beef with chicken? Thanks to this thread you have given me alternative lyrics to offer with this popular tune. Just like Abraham's not having to sacrifice Isaac, thanks to a Ram stuck in the thorns, now I don't have to put my mutton up for sacrifice at the request of this tune!