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Helen Creighton: Folklife

Results 1 to 45 of 45 from your search: Sea song

Item	Reference	Digital
Lay Out Tack Sheets and Foresail Haul performed by William H. Smith at Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia — 15 August 1948	Audio Reel: 5145 Recording number: 1165 notes: Mf289-234
Darling Dinah Kitty Ann Maria performed by Hiram Everett at Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia — 15 August 1948	Audio Reel: 5145 Recording number: 1166 notes: Mf289-234
Dreadnaught performed by William H. Smith at Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia — 15 August 1948	Audio Reel: 5145 Recording number: 1167 notes: Mf289-234
Old Mother Head's performed by William H. Smith at Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In a boarding house across the street — 15 August 1948	Audio Reel: 5145 Recording number: 1168 notes: Mf289-234
Isle of Santa Cruz performed by Gordon Connelly at Glen Haven, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It's off the isle of Santa Cruz — July 1950	Audio Reel: 5185 Recording number: 1580 notes: Mf289-313
Mary L. MacKay, The performed by Otis Hubley at Seabright, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Oh come, all you hearty haddockers — July 1950	Audio Reel: 5188 Recording number: 1601 notes: Mf289-319
Tiger Bay performed by Otis Hubley at Seabright, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come all you young fellows a story I'll tell — July 1950	Audio Reel: 5189 Recording number: 1611 notes: Mf289-321
Handsome Cabin Boy performed by Otis Hubley at Seabright, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It is of a pretty fair maid — July 1950	Audio Reel: 5189 Recording number: 1612 notes: Mf289-321
In Dawson City (Pretty Polly, or The Ship's Carpenter) performed by Otis Hubley at Seabright, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In Dawson city, in Dawson square — July 1950	Audio Reel: 5189 Recording number: 1614 notes: Mf289-321
It's Let Go Your Bowline performed by Otis Hubley at Seabright, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Ten days in and ten days out — August 1950	Audio Reel: 5193 Recording number: 1645 notes: Mf289-329
Pretty Girls of Liverpool performed by David Slaunwhite at Terence Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: You pretty girls of Liverpool — September 1950	Audio Reel: 5200 Recording number: 1699 notes: Mf289-343
Why Don't My Father's Ship Come In? performed by Freeman Young at East Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: How well do I remember — August 1951	Audio Reel: 5358 Recording number: 1906 notes: Mf289-389
Poor Tom Halliard performed by Mrs. W.J. Johns at Musquodoboit Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: From the main mast to the quarter — September 1951	Audio Reel: 5434 Recording number: 1928 notes: Mf289-398
Seizure of the 'E.A. Horton' performed by Berton Young at West Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: You sons of Uncle Samuel, come listen to my song — September 1951	Audio Reel: 5436 Recording number: 1943 notes: Mf289-402
Bold Daniel performed by Sandy Stoddard at Lower Ship Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: On the twentieth of December last — September 1951	Audio Reel: 5438 Recording number: 1949 notes: Mf289-406
Andrew Rose performed by Sandy Stoddard at Lower Ship Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come all you captains, I pray take warning — September 1951	Audio Reel: 5438 Recording number: 1950 notes: Mf289-406
Nightingale, The performed by Nathan Hatt at Middle River, Victoria County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come all you maidens fair pray lend an ear — May 1952	Audio Reel: 5445 Recording number: 2015 notes: Mf289-420
Saucy Sailor performed by Nathan Hatt at Middle River, Victoria County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come my fair one, come my dear one — June 1952	Audio Reel: 5526 Recording number: 2059 notes: Mf289-432
Little Schooner 'Merrimac' performed by Arthur White at Noel Road, Hants County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The little schooner 'Merrimac' — July 1952	Audio Reel: 5528 Recording number: 2073 notes: Mf289-436
Dublin Bay performed by Berton Young at West Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: We sailed away in a gallant bark — August 1952	Audio Reel: 5564 Recording number: 2182 notes: Mf289-462
Sealing Song performed by Berton Young at West Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It was in the year of our Lord — August 1952	Audio Reel: 5564 Recording number: 2183 notes: Mf289-462
Sealing Song performed by Berton Young at West Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It was in the year of our Lord — August 1952	Audio Reel: 5565 Recording number: 2185 notes: Mf289-464
Our Barque Was Far From the Land performed by Mrs. Charles Mitchell at Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Our barque was far far from the land — July 1953	Audio Reel: 5638 Recording number: 2323 notes: Mf289-492
L'ile Blanche performed by Charles Robichaud at Newcastle, New Brunswick — August 1953	Audio Reel: 5662 Recording number: 2419 notes: Mf289-514
Sea Captain performed by Greta Heighton at River John, Pictou County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: There was a sea captain that followed the sea — September 1953	Audio Reel: 5677 Recording number: 2462 notes: Mf289-526
Back Again on Shore performed by Eunice Gilbert at Upper Rawdon, Hants County, Nova Scotia — September 1953	Audio Reel: 5703 Recording number: 2519 notes: Mf289-538
Sit Down Beside Me performed by Frank Faulkner at South East Passage, Halifax County, Nova Scotia	Audio Reel: 5703 Recording number: 2526 notes: Mf289-538
Rio Grande performed by Paul Myra at Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: We're bound for Rio — June 1954	Audio Reel: 5705 Recording number: 2561 notes: Mf289-542
When the Ice Worm Nests Again performed by Paul Myra at Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In the land of the pale blue snow — June 1954	Audio Reel: 5705 Recording number: 2562 notes: Mf289-542
My Youthful Days performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: My youthful days I freely wasted — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5740 Recording number: 2672 notes: Mf289-568
Captain James performed by W.E. Ireland at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Come all you bold and ? commanders — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5745 Recording number: 2746 notes: Mf289-578
Captain James performed by Nathan Hatt at Middle River first line of lyric: If I had only but one morsel — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5750 Recording number: 2771 notes: Mf289-585
George Jones performed by W.E. Ireland at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Come all my feeling countrymen, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5771 Recording number: 2888 notes: Mf289-614
Roy Neil and His Fair Young Bride performed by Finvola Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — Sep-55	Audio Reel: 5805 Recording number: 2977 notes: Mf289-632
Enoch Arden's Farwell performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Goodbye Annie Darling — 1955	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3078 notes: Mf289-640
Fare Thee Well Jean performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: 'Fare thee well Jean, I'm going to leave you, — 1956	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3079 notes: Mf289-640
Bung Your Eye performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: As Jack was a-walking up Barrington Street — 1956	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3083 notes: Mf289-640
Merrimac, The performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: 'Twas early in the morning, just at the break of day — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5849 Recording number: 3243 notes: Mf289-682
Bold Moffitt performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In the Bay of Mobile where the Florida did lie — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5849 Recording number: 3244 notes: Mf289-682
Maiden Saxe Flora, A performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Our cargo was fine of brandy and wine — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5849 Recording number: 3245 notes: Mf289-682
Bold Mannon performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Bonl Mannon went to sea one day, — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5850 Recording number: 3255 notes: Mf289-684
Whoa Mule performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: [Oh he kicked the stuffins from our goose] — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5852 Recording number: 3279 notes: Mf289-688
Falsh Packet performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It's of a flash packet, a ship of great fame, — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5853 Recording number: 3287 notes: Mf289-690
Roy Neil and His Fair Young Bride (Dublin Bay) performed by Ernest Sellick and There sailed away in a gallant barque at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5866 Recording number: 3317 notes: Mf289-697
Girls of Tasmania, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The girls of Tasmania they dress very neat — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5874 Recording number: 3392 notes: Mf289-713

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