12 Jun 99 - 11:29 PM (#86280) Subject: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Goater I tried doing a thread search, a forum search and a dig trad search to no avail (which means it's probably there and I just cant find it!!!). I'm looking for the words to the Pat Dailey song "The Great Lakes Song". The chorus starts..."Mother Michigan, Father superior..." or something like that. Anyone know it? Thanks in advance. |
12 Jun 99 - 11:51 PM (#86285) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: rich r Mother Michigan, Father Superior I promise I wOn'tario from Huron in. The song I sing is Erier Than the one with Ed Fitzgerald in. Nah, that's probably not it rich r |
13 Jun 99 - 12:39 AM (#86293) Subject: Lyr Add: GREAT LAKES SONG (Pat Dailey) From: Cap't Bob CHORUS: Sweet Mother Michigan, Father Superior, Coming down from Canada and Sault St. Marie, Blue water Huron flow down to Lake Erie-O Off to Ontario and on out to sea. The Great Lakes are a diamond on the hand of North America, Brightly shining jewel on the friends they're bordering. Blue water highway, coming down from Canada, All along their coast lines you can hear them sing. CHORUS Hardy are the seamen on the ships that load the iron ore, Coming down from Thunder Bay and bound for Buffalo. Mighty are the fishermen, just like their fathers were before. They say they'll bury me at sea when it comes my time to go. CHORUS Down below the quarter deck, old men mend the fishing nets. Up above the windy bridge, young men work into the wind. All along the Windsor Straits, wives and mothers lie awake And pray Our Lady of the Lake will bring them home again. CHORUS ^^ I may have a few of the words wrong. CAP'T BOB |
13 Jun 99 - 12:48 AM (#86297) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Indy Lass Is there a good source of songs about the Great Lakes somewhere? There's a song about the "Bigaler" that I know and I'd like to add to this bit of a collection. |
13 Jun 99 - 07:52 AM (#86332) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Cap't Bob CORRECTION: In the last verse of the lyrics above, the words "young men work into the wind" should read "young men curse into the wind". Sorry! Cap't Bob |
13 Jun 99 - 05:00 PM (#86413) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Jeremiah McCaw Two performers/writers come to mind, both from Michigan, I think. One is Lee Murdock, at http://www.mcs.net/~jmurdock/lee/murdock.html The other is Dan Hall, at http://www.danhall.com/Default.htm Both write fine material; check 'em out. |
13 Jun 99 - 10:43 PM (#86470) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Indy Lass Thanks for the sites, Jeremiah. :-) |
13 Jun 99 - 10:43 PM (#86471) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Cap't Bob There is a group from the Travers City, Michigan area called SONG OF THE LAKES. They have some cd's and tapes that include quite a few songs of the Great Lakes. Cap't Bob |
13 Jun 99 - 11:27 PM (#86476) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Art Thieme For the great field collected songs of the Great Lakes on a fine album with great notes, see __Songs Of The Great Lakes__ collected from many people by the late Canadian folklorist, Edith Fowke (pronounced appropriately enough "folk"). [Folkways Records 1964---FM 4018-------available from Smithsonian-Folkways as a cassette.] This is as close to the "source" as we can get from here in 1999 "The Bigler" is here along with "The E.C. Roberts" also called "Red Iron Ore", "The Maggie Hunter", "The Dreadnaught", "James Bird", "THe Fayette Brown", "The Antelope", "Homeward Bound", "Cumberland's Crew" (2 versions), "The Merrimac", "The Persia's Crew" and "The Asia". Many of these (and more) are recorded by Lee Murdock on his various CDs. His latest CD (a double one) __Lee Murdock In Concert---GREAT LAKES CHRONICLE__ with the Blue Water Band and solo. Order from : Depot Recordings-------Box 11----Kaneville, IL 60144-0011 www.mcs.com/~jmurdock/lee/murdock.html Art Thieme |
14 Jun 99 - 02:21 PM (#86618) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Indy Lass These look good! Thanks |
14 Jun 99 - 02:44 PM (#86628) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Rex The "Great Lakes Song" is on a CD by Alex Bevan titled, South Shore Serenade. The CD is loaded with Great Lakes songs and has become my favorite of all his work. Alex and Pat Daley have shared concerts and recorded together on and off for, hmm, maybe two decades now. You can find the South Shore Serenade and all his other CD's on Alex's web site. Just do a search for Alex Bevan. I can't recall the actual site. If you go there tell him Rex sent you. Also, Pat Daley has a web site with his CD's bookings, etc. Rex |
05 Jan 00 - 06:09 PM (#158579) Subject: ADD: Great Lakes Song From: Joe Offer Using the notes from Lee Murdock's Freshwater Highway CD, I thought I'd see if I could add a few corrections and some HTML to the lyrics Cap't Bob posted above. The Silverstein is Shel. Don't know who Daley is. Murdock's notes often have horrible spelling and a few other errors, so I can't vouch that these are absolutely exact. Some of the lyrics Cap't Bob posted fit the tune and meter a bit better. THE GREAT LAKES SONG © 1995, Silverstein/Daley, Evil Eye Music/Island House Music BMI CHORUS:
The Great Lakes are a diamond on the hand of North America |
05 Jan 00 - 07:31 PM (#158626) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Rex Joe, thanks for writing them down. The "Daley" you were wondering about is Pat Dailey. (I might have been more careful with the spelling in my last post.) Here is his website: (www.patdailey.com) He's done a few Great Lakes songs over the years. Another good writer of them as I've mentioned before is Alex Bevan (www.ncweb.com/ent/alex/). Now and then you'll find the two of them recording or performing together. Rex
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05 Jan 00 - 08:43 PM (#158685) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: raredance Another batch of Great Lakes songs can be found in the recordings of a duo called "Privateer". I think they might have been out of Chicago. I picked up their album "Burnham Harbor" at a maritime museum in Manitowoc, WI some years ago. Later I found a used LP called "Let The Waves Roll High". "Burnham Harbor" is the far better of the two recordings. rich r |
05 Jan 00 - 10:30 PM (#158782) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Victoria And here I was just about to recommend "Privateer", and rich r. beat me to it! :-) "Privateer" (they no longer use that name) are actually Tom and Chris Kastle, excellent maritime folk singers and also friends of mine. They spend half the year touring and also sail in the great lakes region, in addition to residency programs and workshops throughout the U.S. (They are also great fun to hang out with!) Their CDs can be purchased at http://www.schoonerman.com/sextant.htm and the site tells a bit more about them as well. (If you ever get a chance to see them in concert, be sure to ask Tom for "The Black Dog of Lake Erie" - it's the greatest!) :-) |
06 Jan 00 - 10:26 AM (#158943) Subject: RE: 'Great Lakes Song' lyrics request From: Clinton Hammond2 "I think I'll stick with Detroit River and try to forget that the Brits prevailed on the Canadian side." Stick with?? Don't you mean stick to!?! LOL!! I've heard the Detroit river described as a great waste of space because it's too thick to pour and too thin to plow... And I'm pretty sure if you check yer hsitory, the Brits prevailed on that side of the border as well... a little thing in 1812 or so... I seem to recall someones capital going up in flames... Now... who could that be eh?!?! LOL! So where can I get the tune for this song?? Anyone got it as an MP3?? It reads great and I'd love to throw it into my show... Although I'm gonna spell it Sault Ste. Marie, like it should be spelled!! hehehehehehe Take Ye Care Eh! |
09 Feb 12 - 08:24 AM (#3304833) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Great Lakes Song (Pat Dailey) From: GUEST,999 About Pat Dailey. |