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Songs 5 March 2020

Belfast Mill

This song is a cover/adaptation of "Aragon Mill" a song written by American Si Kahn in 1970 and released on his 1974 album, New Wood, (see the separate listing on the SONGS page for the original "Aragon Hill").

Songs 8 March 2018

Ballad of Bowser MacRae

From David Francey's album "Right of Passage" 2007, which won a 2008 Juno award for best Roots/Traditional album! David says: "One of the most interesting people I have met on my travels, Greg (Bowser) MacRae was the third mate on the MV Algoville" - a Lake Boat.

Songs 3 March 2018

Old Dun Cow Caught Fire, The

The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893 (oft described as the "King of Comic Song") who wrote many famous tunes but was paid so little for his work that he died a poor man in 1947 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Yeovil.

Songs 28 February 2017

Peein’ In The Snow

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers are a folk music and comedy act formed in Glovertown, NL, in 1983, with Kevin Blackmore (vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitar), Wayne Chaulk (vocals, guitar, mandolin), and Ray Johnson (vocals, accordion, fiddle).

Songs 21 February 2017

Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond, The

"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.

Songs 5 June 2016

Saltwater Joys

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is the name of a musical and comedy trio from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which is composed of Kevin Blackmore ("Buddy Wasisname"), Wayne Chaulk, and Ray Johnson ("The Other Fellers").

Songs 29 February 2016

Mary Mack

Mary Mack is a Scottish folk song, a patter song, often sung with a rapid to very rapid tempo, increasing toward the end.

Songs 29 February 2016

Last Saskatchewan Pirate, The

The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy music group, wrote this popular song about a down-and-out farmer who takes up piracy on the Saskatchewan River, stealing shipments of grain and farm equipment from ships and barges.

Songs 23 February 2016

Skye Boat Song

"The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz.

Songs 17 February 2016

Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green is a legendary supposed afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. In 19th-century maritime folklore it was a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea.

Songs 2 November 2014

Hielan’ Laddie

"Highland Laddie", also known as "Hielan' Laddie", is the name of a Scottish popular folk tune "If thou'lt play me fair play", but as with many old melodies various sets of words can be sung to it, of which Robert Burns's poem "Highland Laddie" is probably the best known.

Songs 8 June 2014

Barrett’s Privateers

"Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario.

Songs 11 March 2014

Doon In The Wee Room

The Wee Room of the song was in Quin's Bar in Glasgow, Scotland, which no long exists, but the Scotia Pub in Glasgow had a famous Wee Room too.

Songs 9 March 2014

Ballad Of Springhill

"The Ballad Of Springhill" is perhaps the most famous of all the Springhill disaster songs, not least because of Peggy Seeger’s and Ewan MacColl’s high profiles in the folk music world.

Songs 9 March 2014

Maid on the Shore, The

Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.

Songs 18 March 2013

Mermaid, The

"The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist.

Songs 16 March 2013

Lukey's Boat

"Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.

Songs 16 March 2013

Squid-Jiggin’ Ground, The

"The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" became Newfoundland's first local hit record when it sold 15,000 copies in 1943.

Songs 19 January 2013

Drunken Sailor

"Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"

Songs 28 February 2012

Botany Bay

"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.

Songs 27 February 2012

Citadel Hill

"Citadel Hill" is a love song about meeting on Citadel Hill in Halifax, NS.

Songs 23 February 2012

Beer, Beer, Beer

"Beer, Beer, Beer", also titled "An Ode to Charlie Mopps - The Man Who Invented Beer" and "Charlie Mopps", is a folk song originating in the British Isles.

Songs 23 February 2012

Biplane Evermore

Written by Marty Cooper 1966

Songs 23 February 2012

I'se the B'y

"I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad.