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Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty

05 Sep 01 - 03:07 PM (#542734)
Subject: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

I love my digital TV box and the folk roots channel it brings me!!!!

Heard on it the other day this song by "The Gumboots" off their CD "A Search for a Passage"...

But that was all the info the guide would give me...

Anybody got the 411 on this?


05 Sep 01 - 03:33 PM (#542774)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: MMario

some info

more imfo


05 Sep 01 - 03:40 PM (#542783)
Subject: Lyr Req???
From: Clinton Hammond

Interesting... but distinctly lacking in the lyric front...

Anyone else?


05 Sep 01 - 04:10 PM (#542809)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Sorcha

All I found was the Galaxie play list. Not very helpful either.


05 Sep 01 - 04:30 PM (#542815)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Charley Noble

Does sound interesting. Does it have a traditional sound or is is more of a folk-rock thing? Here's what the reviewer says on one of the above links:

The opening track, "The Passage Chantey," is an a capella song which tells us what life was like for sailors on early ships. The CD's title track honors the people who searched for the Northwest Passage and reminds us that significant accomplishments are not done without taking risks.


05 Sep 01 - 04:39 PM (#542820)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

CN... lemme put it this way... I love Stan Rogers "Northwest Passage"... but it's not much of a working song at all... and well, after this many years, I'd be willing to bet that even Stan wouldn't still be singing it...

The Passage Chanty, on the other hand sounded to me like a hairy-chested-men-on-icy-cold-ships kinda song... And well, it's at least new to ME, so I'd love to find it, learn it and sing the hell out of it!!


05 Sep 01 - 04:43 PM (#542822)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Joe Offer

Note that the link that MMario provided says that "Passage Chanty" and almost all the songs on the CD were composed by members of the band, The Gumboots. Anybody know anything about them, or know them personally?
-Joe Offer-


05 Sep 01 - 04:52 PM (#542826)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Charley Noble

Clinton - I'm not being judgmental yet, not having heard the song or seen the lyrics, although they probably shouldn't call it a "chantey." I've run across some fine new creations with plenty of spirit by Canadian groups such as Tanglefoot and individuals such as James Keelaghan. I've also plowed through a lot of new dreg. I'm not familar with Gumboots and would be interested to learn more.


05 Sep 01 - 04:53 PM (#542828)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

their contact info says Yellowknife, NWT, Canada... we got any catters from there at all???


05 Sep 01 - 05:12 PM (#542837)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

It sounded like one to me charley... but I'm not much of a hard case when it comes to that kind of stuff...

my definition if 'folk' is really broad too!!!!

HEY COOL!!!! Ferron is on the Digital channel right now!!!!!


05 Sep 01 - 10:07 PM (#543042)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

No other info yet folkies???


05 Sep 01 - 10:55 PM (#543073)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Barry Finn

I thought Gumboots was an African group that sing the songs/music & dance of & about the African gold mine/rs & wear those famous (miner's?) boots, that they make so much music with & is so much a part of their dances. Could be mistaken but if they're the same Gumboots I saw on PBS they were beyond being totaly awesome (I hope I'm beginning to sound/talk like the youngster I really am). If anyone has more info please jump in. Barry


10 Sep 01 - 01:02 PM (#546368)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Clinton Hammond

Refresh...

No lyrics eh?


10 Sep 01 - 03:11 PM (#546500)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: MartinRyan

Thread creep warning......

An Irish expedition (of whom two, at least, are singers!) has just made it through the Passage in a small boat. Details here

Regards


05 Dec 09 - 11:54 PM (#2781836)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: GUEST,PLEASE NOTE

The correct title is "The Passage Chantey". Didn't help find lyrics, but fyi.


06 Dec 09 - 10:15 AM (#2782082)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: Charley Noble

For one last time let's find "The Passage Chanty,"
So we can learn the lyrics or at least sing along...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


06 Dec 09 - 10:40 AM (#2782100)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: nutty

You could contact the group ....

info here


14 Mar 21 - 06:57 PM (#4097656)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Passage Chanty
From: GUEST,#

SPIRIT OF THE NORTH

A collection of songs about the North and its history by Yellowknife musicians The Gumboots: Spirit of the North, The Feeling is
There, The Mouth of the Peel, The Bay Boys, The Flow’r of Old Fort Rae, Martha, Dr. John Rae, 1789 – Journey to the Sea, The
Voyageurs, Passage Chantey, Search for a Passage, The Hudson Saga, Crowfoot, John Hornby’s Affair with the North, What a Journey
Samuel Hearne, A Long Walk with Matonabee, Fitzgerald’s Last Post, John Torrington, Christmas Moon.

(From the CDs Spirit of the North (1992), Northern Tracks (1994), Search for a Passage (2000) and Roads Less Travelled (2009): The Gumboots.)

That is from https://www.wcsymposium.com/sites/default/files/2019_wcs_program_v8.pdf