Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: GUEST Date: 23 Jan 12 - 11:05 PM BEER on last post. |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: GUEST Date: 23 Jan 12 - 11:04 PM God Bless you Harry. You left us way to early. |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: meself Date: 23 Jan 12 - 10:10 PM Thanks, Sandy, that practically brought a tear to my eye. I wonder if that would be me ol' shipmate Reg Watkins on harmonica? Anyone know? |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 23 Jan 12 - 08:15 PM As much as I am a hardline fan of both Stan Rogers and Ryan's Fancy and enjoy both of their renditions, Harry Hibbs is the name that I associate with this song, and I believe that he set the standard. He recorded it earlier than the others and popularized it from his native isle to the rest of Canada. Harry Hibbs |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: Ross Campbell Date: 22 Jan 12 - 09:17 PM YouTube - Stan Rogers singing "Let Me Fish off Cape St Mary's" |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: GUEST Date: 21 Jan 12 - 10:50 PM From http://www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com/newfoundland-music/fish.htm Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's Written by Otto Kelland Take me back to my Western boat, Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's Where the hagdowns sail and the foghorns wail With my friends the Browns and the Clearys. Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's. Let me feel my dory lift To the broad Atlantic combers Where the tide rips swirl and the wild ducks whirl Where Old Neptune calls the number 'Neath the broad Atlantic combers . . . Let me sail up Golden Bay With my oilskins all a streamin' . . . From the thunder squall when I hauled me trawl And my old Cape Ann a gleamin' With my oil skins all a streamin' . . . Let me view that rugged shore, Where the beach is all a-glisten With the Caplin spawn where from dusk to dawn You bait your trawl and listen To the undertow a-hissin'. When I reach that last big shoal Where the ground swells break asunder, Where the wild sands roll to the surges toll. Let me be a man and take it When my dory fails to make it. Take me back to that snug green cove Where the seas roll up their thunder. There let me rest in the earth's cool Breast Where the stars shine out their wonder - And the seas roll up their thunder. |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's From: GUEST Date: 21 Jan 12 - 12:43 PM Maybe it's my ear, but shouldn't the third line in the verse follow this chord sequence? D G A7 D With my friends the Browns and the Clearys Admittedly, I'm very much a novice. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 29 Apr 03 - 06:26 AM That would be excellent, Bob. Please also advise where you found these words. Always interested in correcting discrepancies whenever we find them. Thanks for the offer. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: GUEST,BobMcKechnie Date: 29 Apr 03 - 01:31 AM The words you have posted are the ones Stan Rogers published, and are slightly different from the original by Kelland. Do you want the originals posted here too? Bob |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 19 Aug 01 - 10:18 AM CBC's Sunday Morning has a half hour interview today with Mr. Kelland and his family. Starts at 11AM. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Aug 01 - 07:17 PM I just put it on and noodled around with it a bit, and I'm pretty sure that Stan is playing his 12 string in DADGAD capoed 5th fret to put it in G... Just like he did for Mary Ellen Carter... lots of the same chord runs in common... That's some great really cool minimalist finger picking... and ya gotta love Garnets fiddle work on this song!!!!!! They were so good for each other... ;-) |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Aug 01 - 06:07 PM Refreshing. Interesting news. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:50 PM from http://infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/musop/musop_07031998_royalties.html Copyright © 1999 CBC This story last updated 11:35amEDT Friday July 03, 1998 ST. JOHN'S - A 94-year-old composer is fighting for royalties owed him on one of Newfoundland's most folk songs, Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's. Otto Kelland wrote it more than a half century ago but he's still fighting to enjoy the profits of his popular composition. Kelland was working as a prison guard when he wrote Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's. Given how often it's been used, the song should have been a modest meal ticket for Kelland. For years though, all Kelland got was a dribble of royalties. That's because he was credited only as the arranger, not as the composer.
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Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: GUEST,mg Date: 03 Feb 01 - 11:50 PM that is one of the most beautiful songs. Please someone sing it at my funeral if you cannot persuade Denis Ryan to come out and sing it. I think he does the definitive version. It is a bird colony now I believe. More birds per square inch than you have probably ever seen. mg |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: GUEST,Frank of Toledo Date: 03 Feb 01 - 02:35 PM Gordon Bok has a version and it's printed in his book as Western Boat". His chords are as follows: C F C F G7 AM C AM F C F C G7 C F G7 "Let Me Fish off Cape St. Mary's" |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Barry T Date: 03 Feb 01 - 12:13 AM The author is Otto Kelland... alive and thriving at the age of 94!
Here's my midi sequence of the song we're discussing in this thread. This might give you some ideas for chord progressions, Bill... particularly the bass line. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 03 Feb 01 - 12:02 AM Hmmm. Just reading this message thread for the first time. I know Stan Rogers sang the song, but I am certain he didn't write it. The author was (If I remember correctly) the warden of a prison. I'll have to check for the author's name. |
Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Ron K Date: 11 Feb 97 - 10:08 PM Sorry for the screw up on the chords. Let me try them this way. I got this form from a songbook called "Rise Up Singing". Each chord is the downbeat of each bar and a dash (-) means the chord is repeated in the next bar. A slash means next line.
D A Bm - /D E7 A A7 / D A F#m Bm / D G Bm - / G E7 A A7
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Subject: ADD: Cape St Mary's - chords From: ron keel Date: 11 Feb 97 - 09:59 PM There is a bay called St. Mary's on the southern side of the Avalon Peninsula (the same peninsula as St.John's, Newfoundland) and a Cape St. Mary's on the south western side of the same peninsula, facing Placentia Bay. Fishermen from both the Avalon and the Burin (near St. Pierre and Miquelon) peninsulas regularly fish in Placentia Bay "off Cape St. Mary's." I don't know if Stan used the same chords as I do. I got mine from a Ryan's Fancy album. They are also available in any Canadian Folk Songbook worth it's salt. Here they are. CAPE ST. MARYS
I hope this helps. Ron K.
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Subject: RE: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Jan 97 - 04:08 AM I would like to know the location of Cape St. Mary's. I found a fishing village with that name on the south shore of Nova Scotia, but I think there's a Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland. Which one is Stan referring to? -Joe- |
Subject: Cape St Mary's - chords From: Bill Hoyman hoymanwi@dmps.des-moines.k12.ia.us Date: 18 Jan 97 - 09:04 AM I would like to know what chords Stan Rogers used to play this song. I am having trouble figuring them out. Thanks |
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