I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry.
Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by.
And if this river don't drown me it's down I'll need to roam,
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home.

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I love this song!

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Aruial

"Her hair, it was red, and her bonnet was blue."

Hope it's OK to revive this thread--STILL trying to catch up on my reading here!

This is one of my favorite singalongs, I love the sea-chanty harmonies!

We'll rant and we'll roar, like true Newfoundlanders;
We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below!
Until we strikes bottom inside the two sunkers,
WH-E-E-E-N straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go'

I'm a son of a sea-cook, I'm a cook in a trader;
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom,
I can handle a jigger, I cuts a fine figure
Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room

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Soon the initial bliss will pass.
This precious time might be your last.
Like dew upon the morning grass,
Good intentions can vanish with the sun.......

We'll rant and we'll roar, like true Newfoundlanders;
We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below!
Until we strikes bottom inside the two sunkers,
WH-E-E-E-N straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go'

Can't sing this one without swaying to the music with a in your hand!

Farewell and adieu to ye young maids of Valen,
Oderin and Presque, Fox Hole and Bruley
I'm bound for the westward to the wall with the hole in
I can't marry all, or in chokey I'll be

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Soon the initial bliss will pass.
This precious time might be your last.
Like dew upon the morning grass,
Good intentions can vanish with the sun.......

We'll rant and we'll roar, like true Newfounlanders
We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below!
Until we strikes bottom inside the two sunkers,
When straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

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Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we're here we might as well dance! - unknown

No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - Stan Rogers

I think this is one of my all time GBS faves, even though they didn't write it!

I am the fountain of affection
I'm the instrument of joy
And to keep the good times rolling
I'm the boy, I'm the boy,
You know the world could be our oyster,
If you just put your trust in me,
'Cause we'll keep the good times rollin'
Wait and see, wait and see ... oh wait and see!

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Soon the initial bliss will pass.
This precious time might be your last.
Like dew upon the morning grass,
Good intentions can vanish with the sun.......