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VERSURI GREAT BIG SEA
| Great Big Sea - A boat like gideon brown |
| Oh Gideon lived across the bay
He's gettin' older now
His boat is big and strong and bold
She has a stalward bow
But my father's boat was second hand
One someone used before
And after every fishing t |
| Great Big Sea - Bad as i am |
| Here I go again
My heart's on the line
I'm willing to pretend
One more time
I got some life to spend
On even rhymes
But when I reach the end
Will you, will you, will you be mine |
| Great Big Sea - Barque in the harbour |
| From a barque in the harbour I went roaming on
shore
And stepped into a pub where I was oft times
before
And as I was sitting and enjoying my glass
Who chanced to walk in but a young Spanish lass
She |
| Great Big Sea - Beat the drum |
| I still hear the snares in the square
Colours ablaze in the evening
The air was still down the stormy hills
It's good to be young and daring
She was the pride of the summer that year
She was my swee |
| Great Big Sea - Berry picking time |
| Well I spied a berry bush as I was strolling home
one day
And somehow it brought back the bygone days
Of when you and I were berry picking many years
ago
In a little county not so far away
How well I |
| Great Big Sea - Billy peddle |
| Billy Peddle Billy Peddle did you see Tom White?
Billy Peddle Billy Peddle did you see Tom White?
Billy Peddle Billy Peddle did you see Tom White?
Gone around the harbour gonna stay all night
Gone arou |
| Great Big Sea - Buying time |
| I stayed awake for hours again last night
Searching for a reason to keep up the fight
I've made choices I don't regret
I've got problems I don't get
I didn't want to carry the heavier load
You can't |
| Great Big Sea - Captain wedderburn |
| A noblemen's fair daughter
Came down a narrow lane.
And met with Captain Wedderburn,
The keeper of the game
Now my pretty fair miss
If it wasn't for the law,
You and I in the bed might lie
Roll me o |
| Great Big Sea - Demasduit dream |
| I dreamt I saw a woman
Standing by the strand
Waiting for her people
To come in from the land
Waiting there for seven days
She built a fire in the sand
Waiting for her people
To come in from the l |
| Great Big Sea - Donkey riding |
| [Chorus:]
Way hey and away we go
Donkey riding, donkey riding
Way hey and away we go
Ridin' on a donkey.
Was you ever in Quebec
Launchin' timber on the deck?
Where ya break yer bleedin' neck
Ri |
| Great Big Sea - Drunken sailor |
| What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
What do you do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-eye in the morning! |
| Great Big Sea - Excursion around the bay |
| Well it was on this monday morning
And the day be calm and fine
A harbour grace excursion
With the boys who had the time
And just before the sailor
Took the gangway from the pier
I saw some fellow ha |
| Great Big Sea - French perfume |
| It's of a bold young smuggler
From Fortune he did sail
He rode the waves from St. Pierre
And never saw the jail
He filled her up with contraband
Perfume, smokes and rum
He hoped the fog was thick |
| Great Big Sea - Greenspond |
| Greenspond is a pretty place, and so is Pinchard's
Island
Mom will buy me a new fur coat when da gets home
from swilin'
Here he comes as white as ghosts
Children and their little boats
Women in their |
| Great Big Sea - John barbour |
| What ails you, my daughter dear?
Your eyes, they look so dim,
Have you had any sore sickness,
Or yet been sleeping with a man?
No I haven't had any sore sickness,
But I know what's ailing me,
I am |
| Great Big Sea - Jolly roving tar |
| Ships may come and ships may go
As long as the sea does roll.
Each sailor lad just like his dad,
He loves the flowing bowl.
A trip on shore he does adore
With a girl who's nice and round.
When the |
| Great Big Sea - Love |
| Love LaLaLaLa Love
When we're together why does something always
start
Are we both better off when we are apart
Someday's you hate me I can see it in your eyes
It seems like lately you can't wait to |
| Great Big Sea - Lukey |
| Well oh, Lukey's boat is painted green,
Ha, me boys!
Lukey's boat is painted green,
The prettiest boat that you've ever seen,
A-ha, me boys a-riddle-i-day!
A-ha, me boys a-riddle-i-day!
Well oh, Lu |
| Great Big Sea - Ordinary day |
| I've got a smile on my face, I've got four walls
around me
The sun in the sky, the water surrounds me
I'll win now but sometimes I'll lose
I've been battered, but I'll never bruise, it's
not so bad |
| Great Big Sea - Penelope |
| Penelope works in the market
Down in the coconut trees
She's saving up all her money
To go to America across the sea
She once had an uncle
He lived in Detroit town
They got all his post cards
But |
| Great Big Sea - Recruiting sargeant |
| Two recruiting sergeants came to the CLB,
for the sons of the merchants, to join the Blue
Puttees
So all the hands enlisted, five hundred young men
Enlist you Newfoundlanders and come follow me
They |
| Great Big Sea - Scolding wife |
| Well I came into a scolding wife a few short years
ago
And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe
My wife she is a tyrant around the ??
Ah I'd sell her to the devil for a glass or two of
gin
Sur |
| Great Big Sea - Seagulls |
| She left St.John's one day in May
Dressed in her Sunday best
A kind man sat beside her
While she cried her way out West
She moved in with her cousin
Found a job down in the mall
Her friends at home |
| Great Big Sea - Something beautiful |
| Hey You, you lost your only friend
You can't believe you're broken heart will ever
mend
But every mountain has its faces that'd make you
want to stop
On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to
the |
| Great Big Sea - Widow in the window |
| Waiting for the nightingale to sing
Waiting for the harbour lights to dim
I've been on the outside looking in
While the widow in the window waits for him |
| Great Big Sea - Yarmouth town |
| In Yarmouth town there lived a man
He had a little tavern by the strand
And the landlord had a daughter fair
Pretty little thing with golden hair |
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