The Irish Descendants are a folk group from the Atlantic province of Newfou… Read Full Bio ↴The Irish Descendants are a folk group from the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. All the members, born of Irish emitters, were workers in the Newfoundland fishing industry before forming the band in 1990 out of the remnants of two former Newfoundland bands – The Descendants and Irish Coffee. The group helped to popularise traditional Newfoundland music to a wider Canadian audience in the early 1990s, along with other bands such as Great Big Sea. Their popularity within the province itself led to their selection as the official band of the province's 500th anniversary celebrations, during which they performed for the Queen. Tension within the group caused co-frontman D'Arcy Broderick to leave soon after this period, and their lineup has frequently changed since then, with frontman Con O'Brien being the only constant member. Regular touring and occasional album releases, most recently Southern Shore in 2007, have kept the group in the public eye.

Barrett's Privateers
Irish Descendants Lyrics

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Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
A letter of marque come from the king,
To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen,

CHORUS:
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears

Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, HOW I WISH I WAS . . .
For twenty brave men all fishermen who
Would make for him the Antelope's crew
(chorus)

The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags
(chorus)

On the King's birthday we put to sea,
We were 91 days to Montego Bay
Pumping like madmen all the way
(chorus)

On the 96th day we sailed again,
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
With our cracked four pounders we made to fight
(chorus)

The Yankee lay low down with gold,
She was broad and fat and loose in the stays
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
(chorus)

Then at length we stood two cables away,
Our cracked four pounders made an awful din
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
(chorus)

The Antelope shook and pitched on her side,
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
And the Maintruck carried off both me legs
(chorus)

So here I lay in my 23rd year,
It's been 6 years since we sailed away

And I just made Halifax yesterday
(chorus)

Overall Meaning

The song "Barrett's Privateers" by Irish Descendants takes us back to the year 1778 when the singer joins a privateer crew commanded by Elcid Barrett after receiving a letter of marque from the King. The singer expresses his regret for ever joining the crew and the scummiest vessel he's ever seen. He laments that instead of getting American gold as promised, they ended up firing no guns and shedding no tears until they were defeated by a Yankee ship. The singer reflects on the loss of his legs and the death of Barrett, the captain of the Antelope ship that they commandeered. He ends up as a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers.

The song tells a story of the dangers and hardships that privateer crews faced during the American Revolution. It reflects the singer's regret and disillusionment after having been lured into a life of adventure and wealth that turned out to be nothing but hardship and danger. The song is also a commentary on the glorification of war and how it can be used to manipulate people into fighting for their country.

Line by Line Meaning

Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
I wish I could go back to the year 1778 and be in Sherbrooke right now.

A letter of marque come from the king,
The king sent a letter of marque giving permission to capture enemy vessels.

To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen,
We were assigned to capture the worst kind of vessel.

God damn them all!
Curse and damn everyone involved in our mission.

I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We were informed that we would search the seas for treasure from America.

We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
We were not supposed to use any weapons or feel any sorrow.

Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
I am now a shattered person, standing on Halifax pier.

The last of Barrett's Privateers.
I am the last person remaining from Barrett's Privateers.

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, HOW I WISH I WAS . . .
People in the town lamented Elcid Barrett's absence.

For twenty brave men all fishermen who
Twenty courageous fishermen agreed to assist him.

Would make for him the Antelope's crew
They agreed to become Barrett's crew on the Antelope ship.

The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
The Antelope boat was in an awful condition.

She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags
The boat was tilted to one side with torn sails.

And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags
The cook was in the ship's drains, drunk and dizzy.

On the King's birthday we put to sea,
We set sail on the king's birthday.

We were 91 days to Montego Bay
It took us 91 days to reach Montego Bay.

Pumping like madmen all the way
We frequently pumped water out from the ship during the entire journey.

When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
We sighted a big American ship.

With our cracked four pounders we made to fight
We decided to fight the enemy ship with our damaged four-pound cannons.

The Yankee lay low down with gold,
The American ship looked heavily loaded with gold.

She was broad and fat and loose in the stays
The enemy ship was large and heavy in the middle with loose rigging ropes.

But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
It took us two days to capture the enemy ship.

Then at length we stood two cables away,
We reached a distance of two cables (about 400 yards) from the enemy vessel.

Our cracked four pounders made an awful din
Our damaged cannons created a loud noise.

But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
One cannonball from the enemy vessel wrecked our ship.

The Antelope shook and pitched on her side,
The Antelope vibrated and tilted to one side.

Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
Elcid Barrett was crushed like a bowl of eggs and died.

And the Maintruck carried off both me legs
The mast fell on me and I lost both of my legs.

So here I lay in my 23rd year,
I am currently lying down at 23 years of age.

It's been 6 years since we sailed away
It has been 6 years since we set sail on our mission.

And I just made Halifax yesterday
I arrived in Halifax yesterday.

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Comments from YouTube:

@DeimosPC

4y↑31

Not even Canadian, I’m a Brit but I can appreciate this absolute banger

@aperson9641

2y↑5

Please stop being British

@z0mb1nat3r

i cry from happiness every time someone mentions or covers Stan Rogers. soo much great music missed out on from a life cut short

@Patchypatch09

8y↑146

Before lyrics I must have rewound this song a hundred times to learn the words. Just so I could get drunk and sing it. One of my all time favourite songs of any genre.

@davesmith1886

8y↑4

Patchypatch09
Let's drink to this song

@MrAChigurhSr

8y↑1

Me too guys!

@Rat_Baron

6y↑1

Still looking to drink and sing? If so, first round is on me.

@cameronbrister8226

Yes!!

@Jane-yg3vz

I used to think the lyrics were "I'm a drunken man on a Halifax beer". I thought he was talking about Keith's.

@RaspoutinesGhost

5y↑19

Reminds me of sitting in The Lower Deck in Halifax splashing more beer than we were drinking, good times.

@RatchetSly

2y↑1

Good spot, that

@RatchetSly

32w↑1

I have been part of spontaneous pub singalongs for this tune twice. Probably helps that said pubs were a few minutes' walk from the Halifax piers. A great time

@shrimpcupnoodle2574

3y↑12

We listened to the Irish Descendant's version of this song in my junior year AP English class, and here I am 14 years later, still have this song still in my head, and so happy the sea shanty phase came around so more people can enjoy it too! I love the harmonies in it as well.

@carolcunningham7646

34w↑1

My friends like this song. we're @ like this prison camp,
well in NY u must have freedom, wee fought for iyyit but they tore apart those in nazi Europe and stuck it " glumpy" here. My friends mean alot to me and whee just welcomed another one yesterday.🐒🐆🦝🐈🐈‍⬛🦣🦙🐽🐄🐭🐿🦨🐾🐧🐦‍⬛🪻🌼🌻💐🏵🥀🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍃🍂🌱

@wasteofspace1234

10y↑343

Some people in the comments seem a little confused. This is a cover (a very good one) of a Canadian folk song. Having said that it's a fictitious and relatively modern folk song even though it tells an accurate story of Canadian privateers in the American Revolutionary War. In fact it comes to us from the great Stan Rogers circa 1970-something. The reference to Sherbrook is probably to his family's place of origin in Sherbrook Nova Scotia, despite that town not being incorporated until the 19th century. The song is associated with the Canadian East Coast, Maritimer parties and the Royal Canadian Navy.

Source: Wikipedia and stuff so it must be right O.o

@GlassDeviant

10y↑19

Well, I don't know about a very good one, this version is almost wooden and mechanical by comparison to the original. Technically it's "perfect" but the real deep feeling is missing. You can tell it's just a bunch of guys singing a song, whereas Stan Rogers sung it with feeling, as if he really were the character painted by the songs story. If only he'd lived to a ripe old age instead of dying so young, there'd be a lot more of his music to be enjoyed.

@johnkeenan9834

9y↑2

Totally agree, the origins of this song are lost as Stan is long gone and didn't leave any specifics as to how this song came to be. A lot of these pub songs do have some "weak links" to actual history as they are all compendiums of different oral traditions that have been passed down and around for God know how long. Point being is that these songs were not written as historical lessons but to entertain. The really neat thing about this song is that it turns out there was actually a individual by the name of E Barrett who was a loyalist who left Boston in 1774-75 to take a position with the British Admiralty in Halifax. That was his official post. He also had private interests, including owning several fishing vessels. Turns out Mr Barrett did provide one of his vessels (don't know the name but let's assume Antelope) to the RN for "privateering duties" during the American Revolution. Not sure whether he actually sailed her or not but no doubt he survived - "English Gentlemen" of that era did not jump on ships and become privateers but they did reap the rewards of privateering enterprises. But the fact is there is a fairly large kernel of truth to the song.

@greatsayain

DanTheDragonslayer In what sense is it fictitious if it tells an accurate story? Maybe Sherbrook is a town in the UK. Many towns in Canada are named after places in the UK.

@wasteofspace1234

9y↑4

greatsayain A poor choice of words on my part. I meant there were indeed Canadian privateers during the war, and indeed armies, but this particular story is of Rogers' creation. As for Sherbrook, if the protagonist's dear Sherbrook was in the UK then why would he spend six years making his way back by way of Halifax?

@GlassDeviant

9y↑6

There are several Sherbrookes in Canada. One would assume that since he's in Halifax, and the nearest Sherbrooke is also in Nova Scotia, that's the one he is referring to. Folk is also pretty big in Nova Scotia, even to this day.

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@blablaman101

12y↑3

God Damn them all.

@GallopingGirl-po9tz

8y↑36

Love being part of the Barrett family. Newfoundland will always be my home

@theulfheinn1997

8y↑1

When you're an Adams and from the deep south of 'Merica so you can't relate.

@tailbonetailbone9380

6y↑1

Michael a Brazilian Vidal here. At this point I've lost hope to relate! Lol

@emmaphilpott

6y↑1

A Philpott from Coachmen’s Cove, here. Newfoundland proud, Newfoundland strong.

@user-xo5lc1iv1p

Nice to know your ancestor ruined some poor lads lives 🙏🏽

@paddy1952

8y↑87

There'll never be another Stan Rogers. Born in 1949, in Hamilton, Ontario, he died in 1983 in the Air Canada DC-9 that burned on the runway at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which is actually located in Covington, KY, USA. A contemporary of guys like Eric Bogle and Ralph McTell, he told a uniquely Canadian story in his own traditionally inspired way. I'd planned on attending his next show, in Newfoundland. He never made it. RIP Stan; we miss you.

@_UPRC

8y↑8

+John McElwain It's surprising just how young Stan Rogers was. His voice was so deep and amazing, he sounded so much older. It's sad, his career was JUST taking off. He could've lived so much longer and become such a major icon in Canadian music, even more than he is now.

@crownedpleb9747

7y↑3

At least there's some solace in the fact he didn't live to see modern day Hamilton and I say that as a Hamiltonian

@paddy1952

I live in Hamilton now. The place has its problems; but because of real estate realities there's significant change happening. Now it's become the place where younger people starting out in the GTHA can buy their first homes. Members of the Toronto arts community started migrating to Hamilton about five or six years ago. It's become a creative hot spot. With the new Go Station on Lower James St, and the imminence of daily Go train service, there are bidding wars over virtual shacks close to the Go Station. When the various upscale condo projects in the downtown come to fruition that whole area will improve. The people in those condos won't want to cash cheques or get tattoos, they'll want Starbucks and Holt Renfrew. I bought property and moved here over four years ago and I'm very glad I did. Hamilton is a great place to live, and it's getting even better.

@keitheckensviller250

He died a hero. Stayed on the plane to help guide other passengers through the smoke to the exit. He made it out but the damage to his lungs was to much.

@Reziac

5y↑1

Way I heard it, from someone who was a close-following fan of both Stan and Garnet, Stan actually went back inside to try to save more people. Otherwise he'd have lived to make a song of it.

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@Jashin325

8y↑43

As much as I love The Irish Descendants, no one can ever top Stan Rogers with this song

@musicmaster8474

7y↑2

Hell yay Stan yoger has got it down

@ggeeoorrggiiaa

Jashin325 I must disagree. The real makenzies did an even better job

@jacobwalsh1888

4y↑5

This is my favourite version. I think it rolls better than the original.

@tomsnider9823

4y↑1

Listen to his son Nathan Rogers sing it and you’ll swear it’s like listening to Stan himself.

@ironikkronik

4y↑9

My bois and I sing this while floating the upper current river in missouri!

@Solo_Videos

8y↑10

This is the sound of my childhood, it brings back so many memories.

@Wanlingnic

8y↑14

I love how all the voices harmonise! They sound so beautiful singing together!

@ImpulseFilms

12y↑4

I heard this song on Grooveshark and it took me so long to find the same version. I'm so happy I did!

@WntrWolf

12y↑4

I love these guys. When my daughter was a little girl we would listen to Gypsies and Lovers and sing this song every morning

@aonghas100

12y↑1

Stan Rogers would love this ..Man. nice job.

@captinpoko5261

8y↑7

best Newfoundland band on the rock

@steveearle9693

Had this discussion the other day with a co worker

@carolcunningham7646

37w

Ime on my way to canada. There they have us canadolls. I salute you, nova scotia. 😮

@MaximumChampion

3y↑3

This version is the dominator.

@huho9686

7y↑21

god damn them all

@MOI-qq8zc

2y↑1

My favourite band ever!!

@carolcunningham7646

1y↑1

Well, yeah. Wee crossed the Bearing Strait 1st!🎉

@christinabennett1668

10y↑7

I was raised on this music. I absolutely love it. It is unique just like Canada.
Remember a lot of us who are irish decended have been in north america since the seasonal fishermen of the late 1700s. This is talking about the amercian civil war.

@FyremaelGlittersparkle

10y↑2

The American Civil War happened between 1861 and 1865, so if the first line says "The year was 1778" how could this have happened during the American Civil War? It's actually referring to the Revolutionary War, which started in 1776.

@281Alexman

10y

Jack Cordial its talking about Canadian Irish men discovering American and on the way to U.S the ended up in a war.. that's what it means

@FyremaelGlittersparkle

10y↑2

***** I hate to break it to you, but A) the Irish didn't discover America/(American what?), B) certainly couldn't/wouldn't have done it during the later half of the 18th century, when it was already a series of English colonies and was not yet the United States, and is, most certainly C) about Canadian privateers operating under the auspices of the English King during the Revolutionary war targeting American merchant and Naval vessels in an attempt to raise revenue for the war and to break American naval strangleholds on certain portions of the Western Atlantic seaboard. Certain portions of the song don't mesh, historically speaking (i.e. Sherbrooke), but you have it totally wrong. I would recommend that if my assertion isn't enough for you that you do some further research into the history of this song. I think you'll find I'm spot on, man.

@dawnmorris3718

9y↑1

Jack Cordial oh you are so spot on! My husband who is not only a Stan Rogers fan, he knows quite lot about the Civil War and others......so jolly well done!

@rosestewart1606

Christina Bennett sorry but at one time Nova Scotia was over 70 percent Scottish and Cape Breton was close to 100 percent. Irish went to Newfoundland.

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@KaimanToa

12y↑1

This is the most authentic canadian irish music i've ever heard. I have heard so much cultural Irish music and this is by far one of the most authentic cultural music piece ever written. I'm touched.. its great,. gidgshit must be tone death

@RR-oj1jj

9y↑3

this is the best version of this song I've heard! great job!

@Rikki0

10y↑62

The actual story of this song is told here on YouTube by the writer himself, Stan Rogers. A Canadian. He was hanging out for a weekend with a shanty group called "The Friends of Fiddlers Green" and he said they all knew the words to all the songs and could sing the leads in them. He said he wanted a song he could sing the lead in himself, so he simply wrote this song for no other reason than that. There is no real history to it. Just something he threw together for fun. Of course, Stan "throwing" a song together is kind of like Einstein "throwing" a mathematics formula together. He once managed to work a meaningful reference to Rodin's "La Belle Heaulmiere" into a song about a farmer's wife. (Lies). :)

@Trollificusv2

6y↑6

His grasp of the history and jargon is as remarkable as the tune is irresistable! Not many can "knock off" a classic like this for funsies.

@seaninflorida9741

thanks for the details.

@Lightgirl715

12y↑2

Wonderful! Perfect harmony....love it.

@NadiaClawson24601

3y↑1

favorite version of this song

@williamjenkins4913

11y↑1

Party In The USA Its not to our taste but if say The Dubliners did a song about a homesick girl finding comfort and friendship through the power of music I think we would both love it. Also we have the advantage here of listening to an old musical heritage where all the great songs have been brought forward and condensed into a deep thing. The playlist I was listening to spanned hundreds of years of musical history. Compared to the last 40 of modern pop of course one will offer more.

@jessemarcus

1y↑1

RIP Stan Rogers

@thomaskemper8336

Thank you for these songs thanks have a great day.

@johnsimmons8234

4y↑1

Proudly from Dartmouth!!

@tinacorbet4705

darkside

@fullanalysis93

7y↑3

I love this song, and this cover is my favourite rendition.

@boatymcboatface2994

11y↑2

Great job Guys. Southern Shore all the way hahaha

@markhenderson2685

My late fathers faverate song

@equestriansheridan

11y↑2

my pipi taught me this song when i used to sail with him.

@aperson9641

2y↑1

Why did your dong teach you this song

@chadmorse7318

New Brunswick Bay of Fundy.
Close enough! Woooo 😀

@irishfield1

6y↑1

Top song ever will stand time thank you

@jmhinnen

13y

Such a tragic song set to such upbeat music; quite the juxtposition, it is.

@cashgillespie9808

8y↑1

Love this song! Greetings from Alabama, long live the Confederacy!

@rosestewart1606

Cash Gillespie lol I guess you know we helped you guys out just a bit.

@deborahallen3349

SoCal, one of Stan's best, still miss his music.

@williamredfern2683

8y↑3

What a great song,,l keep playing it

@bluenit64

10y↑1

I love this tune, why don't we ever hear music like this in movies?

@annafisher352

10y↑3

I loved it when this song was on Star Wars.

@FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509

8y↑1

Star wars??

@swmg4580

Its satire you dummies

@Trollificusv2

Yeah, you're thinking of Big Bang Theory.

@keatonwright5764

that's not what satire means you dummy

@rainerroepel4701

33w

I love Music

@krabvonchefenstein5753

9y↑4

The best version of this song imo! Dont care where it came from all versions allowed!!!
MVH Krab/Sweden

@christconquers

Everyone thinks there gansta until the homies bump this track and pull out a reefer

@tanidn

5y↑2

This cover version is beautiful!

@dontworryimlegit778

9y↑14

#novascotia I love Nova Scotia folk music.

@tahirabell7469

6y↑4

Don't Worry, I'm Legit they are from Newfoundland

@chubbybunny6975

@@tahirabell7469 The song is literally talking about wanting to be in Sherbrooke Village here in Nova Scotia, and about being on the pier in Halifax, which is also in Nova Scotia. This band isn't the original singers of the song, and it's a song about Nova Scotia.

@steammaker24

@@chubbybunny6975 claudia isn't wrong, but do you have to get so defensive about the song? we know it's about Nova Scotia, no need to be pissy

@tubemonks

Amazing harmony. I love it and it requires no musical instruments either.

@reflex0r

12y

Love this song.

@goblinnpc9741

11y↑2

Don't forget, wintersleep. :)

@4amknews478

8y↑6

HAPPY ST.PATRICKS DAY. LETS PARTY LIKE ITS 1778.

@DARisse-ji1yw

St.Patrick's Day 2020... cancelled in Chicago...

@redepkank

Best song ever

@bobt4260

6y↑2

The Irish Descendants, Nautical Nellies Good Times!, ...sigh

@SirAtomikBoom

12y↑10

I'm actually from Sherbrooke

@EdgarStyles1234

Too bad you're French though, just kidding

@PotterPossum1989

Oh God, this American thought it was Sherbert.

Leaving in shame now.

@concars1234

@@EdgarStyles1234 the song is actually referring to Sherbrooke nova scotia not Sherbrooke quebec I was confused by this too as a quebecker

@EdgarStyles1234

@@concars1234 sherbrooke was a famous general i think he had plenty of places named after him

@concars1234

@@EdgarStyles1234 tru I suppose it could be quebec. either way this song makes me patriotic. but since Stan Rogers is from the maritimes I assumed he had the NS town in mind

@1headphoneguy

4y↑2

Shout out to my fellow Prince Edward Islanders!

@davyjones4872

7y↑7

A letter of marque, muahaha. Send those Privateers to the detphs! We R' Pirates, after all...

@natarito2056

🎶I've got a jar of dirt!🎶 I've got a jar of dirt!🎶

@281Alexman

10y

I love this song

@krumple8560

"Cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags" should have been a clue to the perspective crew. Great cover of a great tune. Thank you Stan and thank you Irish Descendants.

@francistarkenton545

What exactly does that mean? Sure doesn’t sound good.

@krumple8560

3y↑1

@@francistarkenton545 Scuppers are the drains on the sides of a ship's deck and "the staggers and jags", is a euphemism for delirium tremens resulting from alcoholism.

@francistarkenton545

@@krumple8560 Thanks for that. It indeed does not sound good at all.

@BrutalDeath007

3y↑1

My name is also Brandon and I to have ties to the Butler lineage of Ireland. Hahaha small world afterall eh?

@lucasmackenzie9527

5y↑30

Any 2019 Nova Scotians here

@ethanwood9124

4y↑2

Lucas Mackenzie yes

@7UDRO

4y↑2

Nah, Italian guy digging folk music, starting from alestorm albums 😂

@kalemdoucette1882

4y↑1

PEI

@thestabrovers7444

4y↑1

Yup.. Lunenburg county... Just came here thinking about trying this tune this weekend.

@abjectt5440

4y↑2

Living in Dartmouth.

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@joeyj6808

10y↑7

God damn them all!

@LeoGnarleyardo

9y↑2

DanTheDragonslayer well actually after Stans first album he slowed down on song writing for a while. He was spending time with a lot of guys in the port who sang some pretty great shanty's and he wanted to sing lead. So he wrote his own shanty.

@wiliamcobb6070

their best redition of any song is let me fish of cape marys

@benjanini

11y↑5

I'd like to apologize on behalf of my country for Bieber. I don't know what we were thinking.

@slomogecko9906

Eh. The US broke him, they can keep him.

@robertchristie1216

7y↑3

Go Halifax!

@Custodian405

7y↑2

That is some fucking Canadiana. Drink up boys.

@peterogers2

12y↑1

No it's not quite that because it's a shared transatlantic tradition based on the English halyard shanty. It's a great and distinctive example, however, one of the best of them all from either side. Inspired by a story from Bill Howell, a Halifax poet.

@roberthiscock1759

8y↑3

Love's it I do indeed.

@460448e

12y↑1

thanx i do

@altareggo

12y↑1

Don't forget William Schatner!!! Kapitan Kirok couldn't exactly sing, but he provided us with a LOT of great entertainment over the years... check out his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds for example: pure comedy!! It won a poll for "Worst Beatle cover of all time" - and very deservedly so. He did the same thing to Dylan with his "iconic" (to be kind, lol!) rendition of Mr. Tamborine Man. Kanadian to the Kore.

@rickcoona

Great harmonies here, well worth the ear time.
Faithful rendition. Most merchant barks carried 18. Twenty four pounders and four swivel guns.. A leaky sloop with perhaps six or eight four pounders ( cracked at that) is simply no contest. The exploding cannons probably killed more crew and a Single twenty four pounder would be enough to sink her!
(FYI: the weight mentioned is that of the cannon balls being fired, NOT the weight of the cannon)

@Carson.H.Barrett

This song hurts me

@Flubly

11y↑1

Good lord whoever engineered this recording needed to lay the hell off the compression.

@sutubeism

13y

fav

@patchrockit

best cover/version/timing/harmonies/length

@Evan99997

4y↑2

hey in case u guys didnt know from the other 264 comments, this is actually canadian!

@mowermen1762

296 now

@ryanmacphee427

5y↑1

I'm full cape Breton er that lives on Edmonton Alberta Canada

@chadmorse7318

New Brunswick Bay of Fundy
Grand Manan island !

@rachelhood402

6y↑167

Any Nova Scotians here?

@josieemma4584

6y↑1

Rachel Hood Yup!😂🤚🏼

@sandramacdonald7492

5y↑2

I am. :>

@abjectt5440

5y↑8

Cole Harbour.

@crashstitches79

5y↑1

I'm a Cunningham, my folks were there a hundred-plus years ago. Now we're in Texas.

@scottbuchanan404

Close. Moncton!

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@CBDiamond

10y↑5

Jesus this song isn't by miley useless comments this song is pure nova scotian classic bi just loves this tune

@bahamut6662

10y↑4

Actually this is pure Newfoundland as are the Irish Descendants have seen them live and have been in their Pub in St John's.

@travisboyce6661

9y↑3

Bahamut666
bud. She's by Stan Rogers, who was from Ontario but called Nova Scotia home. The song is about landing in Halifax. Pure Bluenoser tune. You guys can have Aunt Martha's Sheep (great song), we'll keep Barrett's lol

@steammaker24

+Travis Boyce But as Bahamut666 says, this band that's singing this song is from NL, nowhere did they say that they were the ones to make the song. I like this version but the guy who wrote it is also excellent as well. cheers!

@Wwr32296

Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

@kmikl

11y↑2

Sugary gum brings a lot of joy emotion to people, but not a lot of fulfillment. Most of the time, music is a way to convey emotions or tell a story and such, but popular music doesn't require this. Look at the genres I listed above, and tell me which pop artists reach the same depth (lyrically or artistically) as most pop artists today. If you can, please tell me, I've been trying to find something redeeming about the genre that took a dive in the mid-70's and never quite recovered.

@carolcunningham7646

37w

I know someone born in Fall River. I search my maps and find things all over the world. I have to go someday, so why not know the best places.🎉 4:18

@T-Rex_Slap

Growing up in Ontario I am envious of the East Coast for having such a rich history and sense of community. The closest thing I had to that was my Polish background. Other than that Ontario is just infrastructure and work. If the world was like the East Coast things would be a lot nicer all around.

@DaTehPlebMaster

ok? this vid so old dude

@LedRush93

12y↑1

you forgot BTO, Triumph and the Payolas. But preach it brother!

@huffingfarts

12y

i cant apologize for that. and the only group i even listen to out of that list is hanson. sheeeesh!

@piper54alpha

12y↑1

Aye that!

@williamjenkins4913

11y

You said it much better then I.

@barachoisboy

12y↑1

my apologies sir. I was unaware that a middle aged loser behind a computer in Ireland was the authority on maritime canadian music. We were the ones at the kitchen parties over here with our accordions, mandolins, guitars, bodhrans, etc. playing the music ourselves. The irish descendants are from newfoundland, a place youve never even been. not ireland. they do not wish to present the music with the "subtlety" of the Pogues..lmao.

@LedRush93

12y↑3

Well ya don't have to call an entire people thick. Granted this song is by Stan Rogers from here and Nova Scotia but you can't expect the whole world to know that

@kixbooty

3y↑2

this song fucks

@SovereignME2

12y↑1

I'm drunk listening to this...only wishing I had more Jameson's to drink

@xypaddy1

12y↑1

Umm...you forgot someone...one of the BEST talents ever to come out of Canada. Still going after 40 years...4th on the consecutive gold record list...3 people many consider the BEST at their insturments....I'll leave you guessing !

@JosephJamesScott

12y↑2

I really like this cover of the Stan Rodger's classic. In fact I think I might like it more then the original.

@stormyandstar7731

Saw jack white perform this song in Halifax nov 14, was awesome cover!

@tomsnider9823

Stormy and Star Pity YouTube doesn’t have it, I’d have liked to hear that.

@RenaRoo123

Great song but Stan Rodgers has this song down on lock. Just can't beat it

@fuckyzeit

12y

and lets not forget Celine Dion, but the US has their fair share of garbage too. I enjoy listening to music from the best from both sides of the border! :)

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