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24 Nov 11 - 07:05 PM (#3262982) Subject: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E There must be many songs of the Vouyagers (sp?) and wilderness paddlers, Wild Goose by Wade Hemsworth comes to mind, and I have heard a tune Called Paddle-addle-addle in you little canoe while visiting the Adorondack Musem. What paddleing related, canoe and kayak songs do you know of? |
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24 Nov 11 - 07:38 PM (#3263002) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: mg I have one about Hawiaan voyageurs in PNW. mg |
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24 Nov 11 - 08:15 PM (#3263016) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Dani Dip, Dip and Swing Dani |
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24 Nov 11 - 08:19 PM (#3263018) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Leadfingers Can I Canoe You Up The River ?? |
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24 Nov 11 - 08:32 PM (#3263025) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,julia L Paddlin' Madeline home J |
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25 Nov 11 - 07:14 AM (#3263180) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler I don't know any but now that you have asked the question I have an idea for one that I can write! I'll post it here when I can work it all out. |
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25 Nov 11 - 07:24 AM (#3263182) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Keith A of Hertford Oh Shanendoah has a verse, "With notions his canoe was laden." Rolf Harris did a song called "War Canoe" which he sung with paddling sounds to a paddling rythm. |
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25 Nov 11 - 08:32 AM (#3263220) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,hiding! Anything you can'oo, I can'oo better I can'oo anything better than you.. No you can't etc etc |
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25 Nov 11 - 09:53 AM (#3263267) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: DebC Eileen McGann put a tune to a lovely poem called "Canoe Song at Twilight". Deb Cowan |
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25 Nov 11 - 10:06 AM (#3263282) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler As promised THE ESKIMO. © Robin Madge 2011 There once was an Eskimo up near the pole Who wasn't cut out for that life on the whole. He shivered all night and he shivered all day And tried hard to keep warm every way. He found he could cope in his igloo at night And the thrill of the chase would warm him all right. But he just couldn't stand to sit there and wait For hours on end for a fish for his plate. He took to his kayak for at least on the seas The water was warmer by several degrees. And he paddled around and kept warm for a bit But still felt the cold although he was fit. And then he decided to try something new He fitted a stove inside his canoe. And set off to try out his brand new idea Central heating afloat, best seller next year? Alas, the device made of sealskin soon burned And so once again a lesson was learned He found out the hard way what many can tell You can't have your kayak and heat it as well! |
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25 Nov 11 - 10:38 AM (#3263300) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: EBarnacle Very clever. Shenendoah can be paced to provide a good paddling rhythm, as can John Kanaka. |
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25 Nov 11 - 08:17 PM (#3263589) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E Wow very painfull and amusing shaggy dog song there Black Belt |
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25 Nov 11 - 08:26 PM (#3263594) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E I just figure there has to be a collection of such songs, like a sub section of work shaties, or folk songs about how wonderfull it is to paddle. |
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25 Nov 11 - 08:42 PM (#3263600) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Gerry Deb Cowan noted that Eileen McGann put a tune to a lovely poem called "Canoe Song at Twilight". On the same album, she has another canoeing song, Temagami. The chorus goes And we're singing and travelling across the blue waters/Rapids and whitecaps, hey, bring them on/There's nobody here but the bears and the otters/So we're paddling swift and we're paddling strong. |
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25 Nov 11 - 09:29 PM (#3263610) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Joe Offer I see fourteen messages in this thread. How can we get to fourteen messages in a canoeing songs thread without getting to Land of the Silver Birch? -Joe- dip, dip, and swing.... |
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26 Nov 11 - 12:44 AM (#3263642) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: open mike There are 2 c.d's of canoeing songs put together by Mudcatter Paul Mills in Canada. here is info about the book that accompanies them. http://ottawafolklore.myshopify.com/products/canoe-songs. these c.d's used to be available form the wooden canoe heritage association. http://www.wcha.org/ they may be out of print now.. |
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26 Nov 11 - 12:59 AM (#3263647) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Bob Landry My ancestry being Acadian and my first language being French, I have gravitated towards French-Canadian music when it comes to the canoeing theme. Here's my humble offering: The voyageurs of Quebec and Montreal and later of the Northwest company based in Montreal regularly paddled their way to the rich fur grounds of western Canada usually (but not always) skirting the land controlled by the English via the Hudson's Bay Company. They sang some of their own songs and traditional French folk songs including: - V'la bon vent - En roulant ma boule (a variation of v'la bon vent) - Vive la canadienne - Les raftsmen - A la claire fontaine etc. "The Irish poet Thomas Moore, who sailed from Kingston to Montreal in August 1804, marvelled at the sight of these men rowing together and singing in chorus against the magnificent panorama of the St Lawrence River. So enthralled was he that he memorized several of their songs in order to teach them to his sister. It was during this journey that he composed his 'Canadian Boat Song'." In http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001243 That article has a very detailed discussion on French-Canadian music Carol and I had the pleasure, a few weeks ago of attending a conert by the Quebec folk group, Genticorum. They've done a fair amount of research into the lives and music of the voyageurs. Their recent CD, "Nagez rameurs" (swim, paddlers) contains some of their interpretations of the lives of the voyageurs in the sings: - Tout le long du voyage - Nagez rameurs - Grand voyageur sur la drave - Quand chus parti du Canada - Les raftsmen |
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26 Nov 11 - 01:02 AM (#3263649) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Bob Landry I should have tried the blue clicky thing: Canadian Encyclopaedia |
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26 Nov 11 - 08:01 AM (#3263716) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Seayaker There was a popular folky type song in the UK quite a few years ago called "Messing About On The River" which contained the lines "In a one man canoe, you're the skipper and crew, While messing about on the river" I can't remember who did it but it was a very pleasant song. |
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26 Nov 11 - 09:53 AM (#3263743) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Anne Neilson The late Josh MacRae took "Messing about on the River" into the British Hit Parade in the 1960s -- but I'm sorry to say that I don't know the writer. |
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26 Nov 11 - 11:55 AM (#3263783) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Greg B "C'Est L'Aviron" seems obvious for canoes, especially big 'uns going up-stream. For kayaking, it'll need time for its own tradition to develop as the non-native (i.e. recreational) use of the double-paddle kayak is a pretty new, albeit welcome, phenomenon. |
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26 Nov 11 - 07:00 PM (#3263988) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E Greg I think that is an interesting point. Canoeing has a commercial and 150 year + tradition. It seems to me commercial use of the Canoe and the days of shanties from the sailing whaling and merchant ships run pretty much parallel and I would expect some more paddleing songs to come out of that. The kayak was used more in a subsistence mode and the lore would not migrate as with commercial traffic I'd guess. Still kayaking for sport and recreation has been around long enough that I chide acoustic guitar strumming, zither plucking kayak paddling dulcimer players for not having done more! |
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26 Nov 11 - 11:46 PM (#3264087) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Joe Offer 150 years, Nick? What about the French-Canadian voyageurs? They were well-established in North America by the late 17th century. And what about the Native Americans before them? -Joe- |
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27 Nov 11 - 12:22 AM (#3264093) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,hg THE GUM TREE CANOE 1. On Tombigbee river so bright I was born, In a hut made ob husks ob de tall yaller corn, An dar I fust meet wid my Jula so true, An I row'd her about in my Gum Tree Canoe. CHORUS: Singing row away row, O'er de waters so blue, Like a feather we'll float, In my Gum Tree Canoe. 2. All de day in de field de soft cotton I hoe. I tink of my Jula, an sing as I go, Oh I catch her a bird, wid a wing ob true blue, An at night sail her round in my Gum Tree Canoe. CHORUS 3. Wid my hands on de banjo and toe on de oar, I sing to de sound ob de rivers soft roar; While de stars dey look down at my Jula so true, An' dance in her eye in my Gum Tree Canoe. CHORUS 4. One night de stream bore us so far away, Dat we could'nt cum back, so we thought we'd jis stay; Oh we spied a tall ship wid a flag ob true blue, An it took us in tow wid my Gum Tree Canoe. CHORUS |
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27 Nov 11 - 12:28 AM (#3264094) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,hg google canoe and kayaking songs for a bunch of them |
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27 Nov 11 - 05:43 PM (#3264406) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E Joe I intentionally put a + after the 150 because Im not great with math or history, not clear when the height of the fur trade was. I should have made it 250 I guess, as for the Indians Im not sure how well I would sing in Cree, was looking for songs of the Euorpean settlers. My earliest ancestor in North America was a French Jesuit Priest who spread the "word" to the Natives in the 1600s |
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27 Nov 11 - 06:31 PM (#3264419) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nick E And Im now all wikipediad up on the whole fur trade thing ;) |
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27 Nov 11 - 10:03 PM (#3264491) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,mg It is very important for people in U.S. to realize that we had voyageurs here as well. I am reading a book on Kindle about the French influence in America (North America, U.S.A. portion). The whole midwest was rife with them.They made their way south and they made their way west. Voyageurs included French Canadian, Orkney Islanders, Hawaians, Iriqois ?? Indians and Metis. They were all up and down the Missisippi and other rivers..th Ohio. We don't know enough about them. mg |
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19 Sep 13 - 12:55 PM (#3559856) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,guest try this one i found: http://boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/1428476 |
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19 Sep 13 - 02:05 PM (#3559872) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Canada Another Eileen McGann tune (she's really into the canoe stuff) is Whitewater. It's all metaphor, of course, but what folk song isn't? Sang this at a "Rivers" themed circle a few months ago. Whitewater by Eileen McGann Whitewater's calling, the river's sweet refrain Sings a chorus to the forest as it's shaking off the rain The night was passed in thunder but the dawn is breaking clear Whitewater's calling, and I'm moving on from here And I'm moving on my way, letting go the rope Casting off all certainty and reaching for that brightly shining hope Camped here forever, at least that how it seems Waiting for a clearer sign, I'm wrestling with my dreams I thought that they would bind me but now I think I see Whitewater's calling, may it teach me to be free And I'm moving on my way, letting go the rope Casting off all certainty and reaching for that brightly shining hope I know the current's swift here the water's running deep I know there's many rocks ahead I've seen them in my sleep I know that I could founder just around the bend But I love the water's laughter so I'll see it to the end And I'm moving on my way, letting go the rope Casting off dull certainty and reaching for that brightly shining hope |
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19 Sep 13 - 08:19 PM (#3559919) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,Julia CANADIAN BOAT SONG: Faintly as tolls the evening chime. Thomas Moore. |
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20 Sep 13 - 05:40 AM (#3559998) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: Nigel Parsons Hey Ho, Anybody home |
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21 Sep 13 - 02:35 PM (#3560174) Subject: RE: Canoeing and Kayaking songs From: GUEST,ketchdana Do songs/snippits about the canoeist/kayaker from Seaton Carew count? Check out the mudcat thread "Song challenge - Not so dead canoeist" http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=106803 -Bob |