Nova Scotia Archives

Helen Creighton: Folklife

Helen Creighton Audio Reel 5989

00:00:02 - Your Father's Garden Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3854 performed by Marie Hare at Newcastle, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Go home to your father's garden, — 1962
00:00:45 - John Neal Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3855 performed by Harold Whitney at Strathadam, New Brunswick first line of lyric: It was in the year of thirty-seven when to Canada there came — 1962
00:04:51 - Skunk, The Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3856 performed by Harold Whitney at Strathadam, New Brunswick first line of lyric: I hunt the deerl and I hunt the moose and I hunt the mink, muskrat, — 1962
00:07:03 - Ghost Story Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3857 performed by Harold Whitney at Strathadam, New Brunswick — 1962
00:10:11 - Sawgie McKay Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3858 performed by Irene MacLean at Strathadam, New Brunswick first line of lyric: One fine summer's evening and I shan't forget, — August 1962
00:11:24 - Sleep Baby Sleep Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3859 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Sleep baby, sleep, the father tends the sheep, — August 1962
00:12:03 - Kissing Game Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3860 performed by Irene MacLean at Newcastle, New Brunswick — August 1962
00:16:05 - Unidentified song for bouncing ball Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3861 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Charlie Chaplin went to France — August 1962
00:16:30 - Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3862 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick — August 1962
00:17:07 - Knoxville Girl, The Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3863 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick first line of lyric: I knew a little Knoxville girl, a town we all know well, — August 1962
Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3864 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick — August 1962
00:19:35 - Peelhead Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3865 performed by Lyall MacLean at Strathadam, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Come all you jolly lumbermen — August 1962
Audio Reel: 5989 Recording number: 3866 performed by Diane Barnaby at Newcastle, New Brunswick — August 1962

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Acadian Folk song

African Nova Scotian song

Child Ballad [F.J. Child anthology]

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Read Helen Creighton's recording notes along with archival documentation related to these audio recordings: Mf289-840 PDF Mf289-841 PDF