Although I prefer the Alestorm cover (because of greater speed and keyboard stuff), without this song that could never have been written. Hail from Hungary!
Discovered this song through Alestorm. Usually have it on repeat!
Greatly written by Stan Rogers (in Canada to settle the argument on here...). I'm very interested in sea-shanties and pirate folk for the simple reason I'm from Bristol (UK) and love its pirate history.
To the Canadian saying Europe has no pirate or privateering history, you are sadly mistaken. Surely from Nova Scotia, you are aware of Cabot's voyage in the Matthew from Bristol to NS? He was an Italian pirate.
@peacey88 plus where does he think the stereotypical pirate accent comes from? to an extent it's from SW England, if I'm not mistaken. For example, the Cornish Pirates rugby club aren't called the Pirates cos the Cornish sound like stereotypical doctors or lawyers. I realise there isn't just one accent in South West England though, I wouldn't want to paint you all with the same brush.
@robsargent4 Indeed. Blackbeard himself was from Bristol and everything in the town is based between pirates and the slave trade (sadly). My team, Bristol Rovers, are nicknamed the pirates and love the fact a replica of Matthew is found in our historic docks. Although you are right, we have a range of accents here in the SW, we all sound a bit like pirates!
@wgbryant - Giovanni Caboto is John Cabot. I referred to his locally known name. Apologies.
@robsargent4 I recall that I have heard a lot of pirate-y accents coming from the SW/W of England - lots of "yarr" etc. I guess so many pirates came from there that a portion of that accent/slang was incorporated into universal piratespeak?
I'm no historian or linguist, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Northwest Passage, Barrett's Privateers... Great stuff, and I'm an "ignorant Masshole." (God Love Massachusetts!) Anyway, I love this stuff. Northwest Passage especially, since I studied Arctic Exploration in college, but this song is just so much fun, particularly when you roar it with buddies in the nearest brewpub.
@ thesexygoat Oh yeah, in case you want to start a "you're Canadian what do you know. Blah, Blah," thing. I was born and raised in Wick. My family have traipsed the Caithness soil since time out of mind.
If anyone can find a DOCUMENTED case of this song being sung in Scotland before the 1970's feel free to provide it. And I don't mean this "Meh Ma sang it to me as I sat upon her knee" rubbish. Real DOCUMENTED proof.
@CooperHaydenn Yes, I've seen that video. I was replying to "sexy goat" who keeps saying this is a shanty from our homeland. I know very well it is Canadian and was frustrated by their responses. It makes us Scots look stupid....
@jessesmom2 my family hasn't been in scotland for a couple hundred years, but i still consider my self a scot. i wouldn't think them stupid before my own self:P
"The assumed authenticity is often so great that other performers have either been confused by it or played off it to fool unsuspecting audiences. In one of their recorded performances of the song, famed Scottish folk singers The Corries state during a preamble that the song is in fact from the 18th century."
Hope this helps clear this up. Stan wrote it, Stan performed it best, and nary a fool shall say otherwise.
whoa. if u've ever been part of a group singing harmony, you know how incredible that feels. can't help but sing along before it's halfway over even if you've never heard it before.
Cheers for posting. You can just about taste the salt and hear the howling gale. Nah, gettin a bit carried there, but a class song anyway. Reminds me of my roots, well on my Dad's side - all Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK) folk going back as many generations as the records go, and a few fishermen, whalers and sailors a tween them as well.
When you're far from home and you hear this song, you KNOW in your heart, your soul will always ache for her. You belong to her and she belongs to you.
Come back my people for Nova Scotia calls you. I know you hear her calling...
Great tune. Thanks for uploading. Takes no time at all to decide this is fun to listen to in part cause the men are having a blast singing it. Outstanding temper and harmony for what had to be a lapse into song!!!
This Scotsman claiming the song as Scottish is pretty funny. Privateering is an integral part of Nova Scotian history and the whole song wouldn't make any sense in a European perspective, since Privateers were basically pirates authorized to attack American vessels. Not too many Yankee ships around the coast of Scotland, I imagine.
@darkpoet1978 Privateering was known and commonly used in many countries. It's just way of orginising additional troops to help your navy. Still though this song was written by Stan Rogers about Nova Scotia privateers :) cheers
@glenar22 ...you'd be surprised how much of a history of piracy there is around the coast of Scotland and Britain and Ireland more generally. Good luck to the Nova Scotians. It seems there's not much future in the sea any more.
@robsargent4 You mean "pirat's future" I suppose :) I think there was no such thing as future for pirates. They knew that they'd end hanging or at bottom of a sea eventually.
@glenar22 Yep. I think it's really just the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean (particularly around the Horn of Africa - that's Somalia) where merchant sailors have to worry about pirates these days.
@darkpoet1978 It definitely was written by Stan Rogers, you're right, but where I was brought up (East coast of Scotland, fairly far South) there's still a ruined fort left over from the days when the Yanks weren't always very friendly. They raided the town in their War of Independence and tried to again in the War of 1812, but by then the fort had been built and they were scared off by a couple of shots. Plus I can see an island from my parent's house where I was brought up and this island...
@darkpoet1978 ...used to be a base for local, Scottish pirates (sometimes licensed privateers, sometimes illegal pirates) in the days when the Hanseatic League's ships used to ply the North Sea. Where my Dad was brought up (about 200 miles up the coast from where I was brought up) a local town official decided to raise a locally-recruited fleet to get rid of the Barbary pirates who were a threat to the fishing fleet in those days. Great song and you're completely right about the song, but...
@darkpoet1978 ...you'd be surprised how much of a history of piracy there is around the coast of Scotland and Britain and Ireland more generally. Good luck to the Nova Scotians. It seems there's not much future in the sea any more.
my god does nobody know this is a scottish song and its "how i wish i was in Edinburgh now" thats about the only word he changed, its almost as bad as if i Canadian sang 'O flower of Scotland' called O flower of Canada then claimed it, disgraceful it he wants to sing it, thats no bother but don't change one word then claim the song as your own
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my god does nobody know this is a scottish song and its "how i wish i was in Edinburgh now" thats about the only word he changed, its almost as bad as if i Canadian sang 'O flower of Scotland' called O flower of Canada then claimed it, disgraceful it he wants to sing it, thats no bother but don't change one word then claim the song as your own
@bytor21122112 - classy mate, real classy, i know your lands nt been about more than a few hundred years so you aint gt as much in the way of history and tradition and that. but still thats no excuse to be nicking ours then trying to passing as canadian, id imadgen that if i sang went about singing 'Oh Canada' but just replaced it with 'Oh Scotland' then id imagine some of your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it
@bytor21122112 classy mate, real classy, how ever will i manage to keep up with the cut and thrust of your intellectual debate. i know that ur country's nt been in existence more than a few hundred years so hasn't got as much in the way of tradition, folk, or history, but still thats no reason to be going nicking ours, then going about calling it your own. if i went about singing 'Oh Canada' but calling it 'Oh Scotland' i think your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it.
@thesexygoat "there is a Scottish version of this song....was re-worded by the Corries to suit a Scottish setting...the original was written by Stan Rogers...." - aljcamp
@bytor21122112 classy mate, real classy, how ever will i manage to keep up with the cut and thrust of your intellectual debate. i know that ur country's nt been in existence more than a few hundred years so hasn't got as much in the way of tradition, folk, or history, but still thats no reason to be going nicking ours, then going about calling it your own. if i went about singing 'Oh Canada' but calling it 'Oh Scotland' i think your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it.
@wileib1 Nope, he's trolling. Stan's is the original; there's no evidence anywhere of the song being performed or written down before he published it in 1976. The Corries did a cover in '87 that changed Sherbrooke to Edinburgh, and once jokingly claimed that it was an old Scottish folk song, but it ain't. This guy's just going around YouTube trolling Stan Rogers threads.
@PhasmaFelis Yeah but there is such a thing as free speech... Donald trump and Glen beck are fucking morons, but we still allow them free speech, as with every one else, and it would be wrong if we didn't
@thesexygoat Actually, it's a Canadian song. Stand Rogers wrote it in 1976, releasing it on his album "Fogarty's Cove". Scottish singers just like to change the narrator to a Scotsman when they sing it.
@XCisor Calm the beans pal. He doesn't speak for all Scots. Some of us say aboot here in Scotland as well, you know. There's just been a slight misunderstanding - he obviously heard the Corries' version first and presumed this was a copy of that. I happened to know Stan Rogers wrote it already, but there's no need to take the piss out of the people whose nation Nova Scotia is named after.
Think you've got that the wrong way round, mate. Many groups, including the Corries, have covered Stan Rogers. Don't let that stop your little rant though. . .
What's your source on this? I recall that the Scottish group, the Corries, made some kind of unsubstantiated claim to this effect but neither they nor you explain how the protagonist ends up in Halifax (one presumes not in the original and landlocked Yorkshire city) referring to it being "six years since I sailed away" presumably from Nova Scotia. Can name one reliable source for this claim which, apparently only you, the Corries and "my god" know about ?
Just found a YouTube of the Corries' version. It's pretty obvious that they have to slur the four syllables of "Edinburgh" to fit it into where "Sherbrooke" goes in the line "I wish I was in Sherbrooke now". Sea shanties never display that kind of pathetic awkwardness and are always adhere closely the demands of meter. But let us wait to see what thesexygoat can come up with as authoritative proof of the claim that Stan's was not the original. Good luck to him/her/it !
@thesexygoat No, it's a folk song sang and written by Stan Rogers. Set in 1778 at the height of the revolution, when privateering was at it's height. The Halifax part was correct too, because Halifax was a big Privateering port. Also, they could be refering to sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, or the Sir John Sherbrooke one of the largest and most formidiable privateers based from Nova Scotia.
your an idiot and Scotland has not been Scotland since they sold them self off to the british who in history where little better then Nazi Germany the brits just had better PR and Scottish in Gaelic Means Irish these are celtic songs that come from Wales Ireland and Scotland we all hold right to it.
@thesexygoat : Fair point, but perhaps not fairly put. I think he was entitled to sing an old ballad, I don't see where he claims it as his own. It's simply his rendition of it.
@touchestoomuch well there's a Halifax in, Yorkshire, Northern England as well, which is a lot closer than Halifax, Nova Scotia, but Halifax, Yorkshire's no very near the sea, so I doubt there's any piers there :). probably more ex-miners than ex-pirates, as well.
Last summer, my wife and I were at the Old Triangle in Halifax and heard McGinty sing 'Barrett's Privateers' - Canada's 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'Northwest Passage' - Canada's other national anthem. We're from Cut & Shoot, Texas and like everyone else in the audience, we knew all the words to both songs.
Stan Rogers is a Canadian National Treasure. He needs to be treasured accordingly.
I first heard this song performed at a renaissance fair of all places (by an act called the Rambling Sailors), and I loved it. It's an awesome song. I've always been drawn to songs that tell a story. All that Bieber and Gaga crap everyone my age listens to... Can't stand it. I listen to real music, thank you. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
If you go to Google Videos, and type in "One Warm line," it'll take you to a 45 minute documentary of Stan's life. Well worth the Watching! Praise Be for the Voice and Wit of Stan Rogers!
The greatest scandal in the Canadian music world is that the Canadian Music Hall of fame has stubbornly ignored widespread calls to induct the late great Stan. Talk about a bunch of Lilliputians holding back a true giant!
Well, the last of Barrett's privateers. Who knew becoming a broken man would say such a rough life could be the topic of a song. Who knew our pain could be recognized? Cheers and beers to recognizing the suffering of those in war.
Theres a bar on Halifax's pier where you shant step foot unless you promise to get drunk and can recite Barretts Privateers.
KingOfIdiocracy 1 week ago 3
Why does nobody from Hamilton know that Rogers is from The Hammer?
alfie8333 2 weeks ago
The Sherbrooke Stan refers to is on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. Privateers were sanctioned by the King of England to raid American ships.
backroadernb 4 weeks ago
BEST SONG EVER.
57DW 4 weeks ago
BEST SONG EVER.
57DW 4 weeks ago
thumbs up if you know where Sherbrooke is. i bet Mr.Tull doesn't
raja14ful 1 month ago
@raja14ful In Québec. Pretty decent place to get some fish n' chips.
williamskidfears 1 month ago
@raja14ful Mr. Tull died in the 1700's. The group is named after him.
DitchBiscuit 4 weeks ago
Awesome!
mbwildlands 1 month ago
My father used to sing this to me as we drove the three hour road up to his house every second weekend. I love it. :-)
babyslime 2 months ago
Poor guy, passed away in an Air Canada Aviation Accident. From Nova Scotia like me so I love his music and will never forget it.
pCf96 2 months ago
@pCf96 Born and raised in Ontario. Parents were from Nova Scotia.
Wreckinbelle 2 months ago
4 people are broken men on a Halifax pier.
TheCanadianDude 2 months ago 2
with a name of antelope you would think fast and nimble ship
fjordking 3 months ago
this songs the mike jordan of music
JChamberland 3 months ago
its a beaty alright
JChamberland 3 months ago
So this song is about an idiot that gets involved with pirates, thinking there would be no blood?
Malkohut 3 months ago
@Malkohut Based on historical fact, the characters are fictional.
bigbirdwpg 3 months ago
@Malkohut They were privateers, not pirates.
57DW 1 month ago 2
Turn transcribe audio on.. its a whole new song
WiskeyDickBomber 3 months ago 2
Although I prefer the Alestorm cover (because of greater speed and keyboard stuff), without this song that could never have been written. Hail from Hungary!
YnasMidgardNaule 4 months ago
Someone told me I should play Fallout 3 to this song... It's a good song, but it doesn't quite match up with the Capitol Wasteland. ;)
hgryphon 4 months ago
alestorm > this every day
MetalTillIDie461 4 months ago
@MetalTillIDie461 Wow, Alestorm's cover blows.
Majesticgoat 4 months ago
we all miss stan
+ his gr8 music lol
MyCarljames 4 months ago
I find it funny to listen to Alestorm's version of this, then the other ones. How very... interesting...
DoYouFearDeath333 4 months ago
Look up there! yes, up above, there are four people with no soul.
dixieflyer500 5 months ago 4
Discovered this song through Alestorm. Usually have it on repeat!
Greatly written by Stan Rogers (in Canada to settle the argument on here...). I'm very interested in sea-shanties and pirate folk for the simple reason I'm from Bristol (UK) and love its pirate history.
To the Canadian saying Europe has no pirate or privateering history, you are sadly mistaken. Surely from Nova Scotia, you are aware of Cabot's voyage in the Matthew from Bristol to NS? He was an Italian pirate.
peacey88 5 months ago
@peacey88 Giovanni Caboto...He traveled on to NS after he settled i NL..just in case you wanted to get the story straight...Bill
wgbryant 5 months ago
@peacey88 Alestorm? Did Alestrom cover this??
Judokkaa 4 months ago
@peacey88 plus where does he think the stereotypical pirate accent comes from? to an extent it's from SW England, if I'm not mistaken. For example, the Cornish Pirates rugby club aren't called the Pirates cos the Cornish sound like stereotypical doctors or lawyers. I realise there isn't just one accent in South West England though, I wouldn't want to paint you all with the same brush.
robsargent4 2 months ago
@robsargent4 Indeed. Blackbeard himself was from Bristol and everything in the town is based between pirates and the slave trade (sadly). My team, Bristol Rovers, are nicknamed the pirates and love the fact a replica of Matthew is found in our historic docks. Although you are right, we have a range of accents here in the SW, we all sound a bit like pirates!
@wgbryant - Giovanni Caboto is John Cabot. I referred to his locally known name. Apologies.
peacey88 2 months ago
@robsargent4 I recall that I have heard a lot of pirate-y accents coming from the SW/W of England - lots of "yarr" etc. I guess so many pirates came from there that a portion of that accent/slang was incorporated into universal piratespeak?
I'm no historian or linguist, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Replicaate 2 months ago
@Replicaate I'm no expert either, but your explanation would certainly make sense!
robsargent4 2 months ago
Thumbs up if you're an Alestorm fan doing your research like a responsible + respectful metalhead.
Rainmaker666 5 months ago 145
@Rainmaker666 Best song on their new album.
pbfpfoss 4 months ago
@Rainmaker666 YESSSSSSS
Fantasydude14 4 months ago
@Rainmaker666 Haha ... exactly what I did a few weeks ago. Cheers!
SirFrost666 3 months ago
@Rainmaker666
get out of my braiiiiiin
Qwepir 3 months ago
@Rainmaker666 Yeah pretty much bro. Started by looking up the lyrics come to find out I like this version better :)
Oh it's good to be a pirate!
infinity5quared 2 months ago
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@Rainmaker666 Yeah pretty much bro. Started by looking up the lyrics come to find out I like this version better :)
Oh it's good to be a pirate!
infinity5quared 2 months ago
@Rainmaker666 That is how I found my way here at first, but I think I like this sea shanty even better.
ValhallaViking249 2 months ago
@Rainmaker666 I usually f*cking hate thos "Thumbs up if you..."-comments, but you got one from me.
TheTrohl 1 month ago
@Rainmaker666
Partly for that reason, but also because I attend a local folk club every Thursday and I fully intend to add this song to my repertoire :)
Bollthorn 1 month ago
@Rainmaker666 Jethro Tull's cover is much better.
aspccjfraser 1 month ago
@aspccjfraser No, it isn't.
williamskidfears 1 month ago
@aspccjfraser Bullshit.
DreadVane 1 month ago
@Rainmaker666 I had never heard of Alestorm before reading this comment. I haven't stopped listening to them all week, thank you good sir.
eastcoastjoshi 2 days ago
So so very fine. Noble.
nivlas1 5 months ago
RIP Stan, Greatest of all sea shanties.
Ripley44mag 5 months ago 2
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My dad said he came (like cummed) to this song.
logolotta 5 months ago
@logolotta lol
bytor21122112 5 months ago
@logolotta
well, you can't fault him for finding a good rhythm....
Albukhshi 4 months ago in playlist Stan Rogers' songs
I'd love to hear Barrington Levy sing this.
HoldingUpTheBar 5 months ago
Well the year was 1778. . .
*epic heavy metal band comes in*
Pirate choir: "HOW I WISH IN SHERBROOKE NOOOOOOOW!!!!"
rwarrawr 5 months ago 4
@rwarrawr /watch?v=Cw5h8I1SjWI
Sojio 5 months ago
@Sojio I know it existed, that was what I was posting about :P
rwarrawr 5 months ago
i can still remember when i heard this the first time in '05 drivin out of Winnipeg en route to Fernie, BC i was 14.
XCisor 5 months ago
The loss of Stan is a cry for safer airliner interiors...
Burning plastic gave off deadly fumes.... on the GROUND!!
J.C.
375GTB 6 months ago 2
@375GTB It's been 28 years and not much has improved in all that time.
BillCimentEsq 6 months ago
Northwest Passage, Barrett's Privateers... Great stuff, and I'm an "ignorant Masshole." (God Love Massachusetts!) Anyway, I love this stuff. Northwest Passage especially, since I studied Arctic Exploration in college, but this song is just so much fun, particularly when you roar it with buddies in the nearest brewpub.
Echo1010001 6 months ago
4 People were Privateers who didn't make it.
Bosieful 6 months ago
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Helliran 7 months ago 3
@Helliran Alestorm's new album is awesome!
BrutalHomicide 6 months ago
400th like!
AduienceOfOne 7 months ago
I love how he and Garnet wear their beards.
vopher 7 months ago
Alestorm's version is awesome. But it's a bit cringey. The original doesn't make me cringe as much. x'D
TrussQi 7 months ago
@thesexygoat if you watch this video you will see an interview where stan rogers explains how he came about writing Barret's privateers
youtube.com/watch?v=G-PQbdmQRwc&NR=1
buglerdan 8 months ago
@thesexygoat watch this video stan rogers explains in an interview how he came about writing the song
youtube.com/watch?v=G-PQbdmQRwc&NR=1
buglerdan 8 months ago
@ thesexygoat Oh yeah, in case you want to start a "you're Canadian what do you know. Blah, Blah," thing. I was born and raised in Wick. My family have traipsed the Caithness soil since time out of mind.
If anyone can find a DOCUMENTED case of this song being sung in Scotland before the 1970's feel free to provide it. And I don't mean this "Meh Ma sang it to me as I sat upon her knee" rubbish. Real DOCUMENTED proof.
jessesmom2 8 months ago 13
@jessesmom2 there is a video of him saying her needed to write a shanty so he had something to lead whilst siting around.
CooperHaydenn 5 months ago
@CooperHaydenn Yes, I've seen that video. I was replying to "sexy goat" who keeps saying this is a shanty from our homeland. I know very well it is Canadian and was frustrated by their responses. It makes us Scots look stupid....
jessesmom2 5 months ago
@jessesmom2 my family hasn't been in scotland for a couple hundred years, but i still consider my self a scot. i wouldn't think them stupid before my own self:P
CooperHaydenn 5 months ago
"The assumed authenticity is often so great that other performers have either been confused by it or played off it to fool unsuspecting audiences. In one of their recorded performances of the song, famed Scottish folk singers The Corries state during a preamble that the song is in fact from the 18th century."
Hope this helps clear this up. Stan wrote it, Stan performed it best, and nary a fool shall say otherwise.
jessesmom2 8 months ago 2
can we get a petition for this to replace o'canada?
weedybread 8 months ago 122
@weedybread They did a survey on CBC a few years back.
If Canada had to change it's anthem, what song should it be?
The winner was Stan Rogers Northwest Passage.
GrrrIamMad 4 months ago 20
@GrrrIamMad i would stand 5mins for that :)
BaconTV123 1 day ago
@weedybread Tough Choice O'Canada is an awesome song. This from a Yankee who thinks the "Star Spangled Banner" is a lame national anthem.
TristanandIsolt 2 months ago 2
@TristanandIsolt It's a damn drinking song, for fuck's sake.
Now, if it were "The Battle Hymn Of the Republic," or even "Stars And Stripes Forever," I'd have no complaint..
williamskidfears 1 month ago
Alestorm does a cover of this on their next album :D
Folian87 8 months ago 3
@Folian87 it's fckin epic! :D
ShinyPokemon007 7 months ago
My favorite version.
luiszephyr 8 months ago
Rest in peace, Stan, we will remember you to the end of time.
chilledify 8 months ago
whoa. if u've ever been part of a group singing harmony, you know how incredible that feels. can't help but sing along before it's halfway over even if you've never heard it before.
eeplebert 9 months ago
3 people were smashed like a bowl of eggs
Roarmybear 9 months ago
no one likes them fuckin" trolls .
xPiggEH 9 months ago
Awesome!....all the greats pass to soon :(
stonepiggies 10 months ago
awesome!
zendishwasher2 10 months ago
too bad hes dead... :(
DJflopmasterflex 10 months ago
Although none of them were pirates as far as I know.
robsargent4 10 months ago
Cheers for posting. You can just about taste the salt and hear the howling gale. Nah, gettin a bit carried there, but a class song anyway. Reminds me of my roots, well on my Dad's side - all Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK) folk going back as many generations as the records go, and a few fishermen, whalers and sailors a tween them as well.
robsargent4 10 months ago
absolutely awesome.....the best
jessiewhisper 10 months ago
When you're far from home and you hear this song, you KNOW in your heart, your soul will always ache for her. You belong to her and she belongs to you.
Come back my people for Nova Scotia calls you. I know you hear her calling...
ilovemethodman 10 months ago
I love this song. A Stan Rogers classic! And anyone trying to say otherwise is clearly... ahem... to quote Stan again... "an idiot, I suppose." ;-D
hazelmay64 11 months ago
drink 5 beer and try not to stomp your foot to this song. i dare ya.
aquibwa 11 months ago 2
@aquibwa No point trying. It's just impossible!
robsargent4 10 months ago
How is this possibly up for debate? This song is a Stan Rogers original. It is well documented and appropriately registered.
newriverguide 11 months ago
@newriverguide
Not really a debate but sometimes you have to pick up a swatter and squash a pesky insect.
piehole23 11 months ago
How is this possibly up for debate? This song is a Stan Rogers original. It is well documented and apopriately registered.
newriverguide 11 months ago
How is this possibly up for debate? This song is a Stan Rogers original. It is well documented and appopriately registered.
newriverguide 11 months ago
Great tune. Thanks for uploading. Takes no time at all to decide this is fun to listen to in part cause the men are having a blast singing it. Outstanding temper and harmony for what had to be a lapse into song!!!
Thanks again!!!
psient 11 months ago
there is a Scottish version of this song....was re-worded by the Corries to suit a Scottish setting...the original was written by Stan Rogers....
aljcamp 11 months ago
This Scotsman claiming the song as Scottish is pretty funny. Privateering is an integral part of Nova Scotian history and the whole song wouldn't make any sense in a European perspective, since Privateers were basically pirates authorized to attack American vessels. Not too many Yankee ships around the coast of Scotland, I imagine.
darkpoet1978 11 months ago
@darkpoet1978 Privateering was known and commonly used in many countries. It's just way of orginising additional troops to help your navy. Still though this song was written by Stan Rogers about Nova Scotia privateers :) cheers
glenar22 11 months ago
@glenar22 ...you'd be surprised how much of a history of piracy there is around the coast of Scotland and Britain and Ireland more generally. Good luck to the Nova Scotians. It seems there's not much future in the sea any more.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@robsargent4 Sorry mate that comment wasn't meant for you.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@robsargent4 You mean "pirat's future" I suppose :) I think there was no such thing as future for pirates. They knew that they'd end hanging or at bottom of a sea eventually.
glenar22 10 months ago
@glenar22 Yep. I think it's really just the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean (particularly around the Horn of Africa - that's Somalia) where merchant sailors have to worry about pirates these days.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@darkpoet1978 It definitely was written by Stan Rogers, you're right, but where I was brought up (East coast of Scotland, fairly far South) there's still a ruined fort left over from the days when the Yanks weren't always very friendly. They raided the town in their War of Independence and tried to again in the War of 1812, but by then the fort had been built and they were scared off by a couple of shots. Plus I can see an island from my parent's house where I was brought up and this island...
robsargent4 10 months ago
@darkpoet1978 ...used to be a base for local, Scottish pirates (sometimes licensed privateers, sometimes illegal pirates) in the days when the Hanseatic League's ships used to ply the North Sea. Where my Dad was brought up (about 200 miles up the coast from where I was brought up) a local town official decided to raise a locally-recruited fleet to get rid of the Barbary pirates who were a threat to the fishing fleet in those days. Great song and you're completely right about the song, but...
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@darkpoet1978 ...you'd be surprised how much of a history of piracy there is around the coast of Scotland and Britain and Ireland more generally. Good luck to the Nova Scotians. It seems there's not much future in the sea any more.
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my god does nobody know this is a scottish song and its "how i wish i was in Edinburgh now" thats about the only word he changed, its almost as bad as if i Canadian sang 'O flower of Scotland' called O flower of Canada then claimed it, disgraceful it he wants to sing it, thats no bother but don't change one word then claim the song as your own
thesexygoat 11 months ago
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my god does nobody know this is a scottish song and its "how i wish i was in Edinburgh now" thats about the only word he changed, its almost as bad as if i Canadian sang 'O flower of Scotland' called O flower of Canada then claimed it, disgraceful it he wants to sing it, thats no bother but don't change one word then claim the song as your own
thesexygoat 11 months ago
@thesexygoat fuckin' troll
bytor21122112 11 months ago
@bytor21122112 - classy mate, real classy, i know your lands nt been about more than a few hundred years so you aint gt as much in the way of history and tradition and that. but still thats no excuse to be nicking ours then trying to passing as canadian, id imadgen that if i sang went about singing 'Oh Canada' but just replaced it with 'Oh Scotland' then id imagine some of your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it
thesexygoat 11 months ago
@thesexygoat
Not really, because then we could do a Stan song as the anthem.
FraggingBard 8 months ago
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@bytor21122112 classy mate, real classy, how ever will i manage to keep up with the cut and thrust of your intellectual debate. i know that ur country's nt been in existence more than a few hundred years so hasn't got as much in the way of tradition, folk, or history, but still thats no reason to be going nicking ours, then going about calling it your own. if i went about singing 'Oh Canada' but calling it 'Oh Scotland' i think your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it.
thesexygoat 11 months ago
@thesexygoat now whats funny is that i am of Scottish decent, and from Nova Scotia. you sir, and i use the word sir loosely, are a moron, lol
bytor21122112 11 months ago
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@thesexygoat "there is a Scottish version of this song....was re-worded by the Corries to suit a Scottish setting...the original was written by Stan Rogers...." - aljcamp
Draegun 11 months ago
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@bytor21122112 classy mate, real classy, how ever will i manage to keep up with the cut and thrust of your intellectual debate. i know that ur country's nt been in existence more than a few hundred years so hasn't got as much in the way of tradition, folk, or history, but still thats no reason to be going nicking ours, then going about calling it your own. if i went about singing 'Oh Canada' but calling it 'Oh Scotland' i think your lot might have a wee thing or two to say about it.
thesexygoat 11 months ago
@bytor21122112 He has a right to his opinion. Its a perfectly reasonable thing he's saying, and he makes a compelling argument.
wileib1 7 months ago
@wileib1 lol, you should do stand up, you're funny :P
bytor21122112 7 months ago
@bytor21122112 And you should be part of the American government, your an idiot!
wileib1 7 months ago
@wileib1 lol, nice, and it is you're not your...........and you call me the idiot......
bytor21122112 7 months ago
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@bytor21122112 That's because you are an idiot
wileib1 7 months ago
Nice weather were having huh?
RocaDeearCenjar 7 months ago
@RocaDeearCenjar lol :P
bytor21122112 7 months ago
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PhasmaFelis 7 months ago
@wileib1 Nope, he's trolling. Stan's is the original; there's no evidence anywhere of the song being performed or written down before he published it in 1976. The Corries did a cover in '87 that changed Sherbrooke to Edinburgh, and once jokingly claimed that it was an old Scottish folk song, but it ain't. This guy's just going around YouTube trolling Stan Rogers threads.
PhasmaFelis 7 months ago 3
@PhasmaFelis Yeah but there is such a thing as free speech... Donald trump and Glen beck are fucking morons, but we still allow them free speech, as with every one else, and it would be wrong if we didn't
wileib1 7 months ago
@thesexygoat Actually, it's a Canadian song. Stand Rogers wrote it in 1976, releasing it on his album "Fogarty's Cove". Scottish singers just like to change the narrator to a Scotsman when they sing it.
Traitorfish 11 months ago
yeah go eat some haggis eh
whaddya know aboot Stan Rogers anyway
XCisor 11 months ago
@XCisor Calm the beans pal. He doesn't speak for all Scots. Some of us say aboot here in Scotland as well, you know. There's just been a slight misunderstanding - he obviously heard the Corries' version first and presumed this was a copy of that. I happened to know Stan Rogers wrote it already, but there's no need to take the piss out of the people whose nation Nova Scotia is named after.
robsargent4 10 months ago
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lol "aboot", that must be where us Canucks got it from.
of course, i mean no disrespect, it's just the irish in me
XCisor 10 months ago
@XCisor Fair enough.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@XCisor
Irish? You mean British, right?
No disrespect of course. :P
FraggingBard 9 months ago
@FraggingBard
lol i guess thats where the accent comes from but papa was from the emerald isle Irish Republic
XCisor 8 months ago
@XCisor
Haha, just having a go. Do ye speak the language/one of the dialects? Can't find many Irish in Aus, more's the pity.
FraggingBard 8 months ago
@thesexygoat
If you don't like it, little red "X" in the top right corner........mate...
Fitzy240 11 months ago
@thesexygoat
Think you've got it the wrong way 'round mate. Groups, including the Corries have covered Stan Rogers. Don't let that stop your rant though . . .
mj1890 11 months ago
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@thesexygoat
Think you've got that the wrong way round, mate. Many groups, including the Corries, have covered Stan Rogers. Don't let that stop your little rant though. . .
mj1890 11 months ago
@thesexygoat Absolutely untrue!
Here is the wikipedia entry.
en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Barrett%27s_Privateers (delete the spaces)
wdgarraway 11 months ago
@thesexygoat
What's your source on this? I recall that the Scottish group, the Corries, made some kind of unsubstantiated claim to this effect but neither they nor you explain how the protagonist ends up in Halifax (one presumes not in the original and landlocked Yorkshire city) referring to it being "six years since I sailed away" presumably from Nova Scotia. Can name one reliable source for this claim which, apparently only you, the Corries and "my god" know about ?
piehole23 11 months ago
@thesexygoat
Just found a YouTube of the Corries' version. It's pretty obvious that they have to slur the four syllables of "Edinburgh" to fit it into where "Sherbrooke" goes in the line "I wish I was in Sherbrooke now". Sea shanties never display that kind of pathetic awkwardness and are always adhere closely the demands of meter. But let us wait to see what thesexygoat can come up with as authoritative proof of the claim that Stan's was not the original. Good luck to him/her/it !
piehole23 11 months ago
@thesexygoat Are you serious? I've heard the Corries' version too, but they didn't write it.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@thesexygoat No, it's a folk song sang and written by Stan Rogers. Set in 1778 at the height of the revolution, when privateering was at it's height. The Halifax part was correct too, because Halifax was a big Privateering port. Also, they could be refering to sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, or the Sir John Sherbrooke one of the largest and most formidiable privateers based from Nova Scotia.
robbie4233334 10 months ago
@thesexygoat Thats not true The Corries actually just changed it. Your an idiot. Go away.
792284001 10 months ago
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@thesexygoat That's not true The Corries actually just changed it. You're an idiot. Go away.
792284001 10 months ago
@thesexygoat
your an idiot and Scotland has not been Scotland since they sold them self off to the british who in history where little better then Nazi Germany the brits just had better PR and Scottish in Gaelic Means Irish these are celtic songs that come from Wales Ireland and Scotland we all hold right to it.
Nmccarville 9 months ago
@thesexygoat
Aye ye speak some truth.....how I wish I was in Edinburgh now.
Crankjerk 9 months ago
@thesexygoat : Fair point, but perhaps not fairly put. I think he was entitled to sing an old ballad, I don't see where he claims it as his own. It's simply his rendition of it.
And anyway, he does a mighty job of it!
grimwat 7 months ago
@thesexygoat Had a quick look around - everything I read attributes the song to Stan Rogers -
grimwat 7 months ago
@thesexygoat idiot... if it was scottish they wouldnt talk about halifax
touchestoomuch 5 months ago
@touchestoomuch well there's a Halifax in, Yorkshire, Northern England as well, which is a lot closer than Halifax, Nova Scotia, but Halifax, Yorkshire's no very near the sea, so I doubt there's any piers there :). probably more ex-miners than ex-pirates, as well.
robsargent4 2 months ago
Stan Rogers, Thanks for the wonderful legacy you have left for us all!
skuerschner 1 year ago
Last summer, my wife and I were at the Old Triangle in Halifax and heard McGinty sing 'Barrett's Privateers' - Canada's 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'Northwest Passage' - Canada's other national anthem. We're from Cut & Shoot, Texas and like everyone else in the audience, we knew all the words to both songs.
Stan Rogers is a Canadian National Treasure. He needs to be treasured accordingly.
Pangael 1 year ago
Where is this version from? I can't find it anywhere.
MM1E 1 year ago
@MM1E Its from the Stan Rogers "Between The Breaks....Live!" album from 1979.
bytor21122112 1 year ago
My father used to play song when I was young, oh how I miss that man.
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barret's Privateers!
peacefullullaby 1 year ago
well the 3 people who dislike this well they can suck a cock... stan rogers for the win
SWAMPDONKEY1OOOO 1 year ago
The number of times I've heard Maritimers sing this song with a pint in hand...
JamaicanPhoenix 1 year ago 2
I first heard this song performed at a renaissance fair of all places (by an act called the Rambling Sailors), and I loved it. It's an awesome song. I've always been drawn to songs that tell a story. All that Bieber and Gaga crap everyone my age listens to... Can't stand it. I listen to real music, thank you. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
myfamilyiscrazy 1 year ago
@myfamilyiscrazy I love your comment about people your age. I have always enjoyed "non mainstream" music. It's pure, simple, and beautiful.
seanandmandy2000 1 year ago
Shed no tears (DRINK MORE BEERS!)
Dyslexick730 1 year ago
How can you sing this 'too loud' ? Love it!
MyMoppet52 1 year ago
She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags
and the cook and the scoffers with the staggers and jags.
goddamn them all.
akniznik 1 year ago
If you go to Google Videos, and type in "One Warm line," it'll take you to a 45 minute documentary of Stan's life. Well worth the Watching! Praise Be for the Voice and Wit of Stan Rogers!
RandyTheBee 1 year ago 11
@RandyTheBee Hell, just type it here into youtube and you will find it broken down into a few parts :)
bytor21122112 1 year ago 5
@RandyTheBee
The greatest scandal in the Canadian music world is that the Canadian Music Hall of fame has stubbornly ignored widespread calls to induct the late great Stan. Talk about a bunch of Lilliputians holding back a true giant!
piehole23 1 year ago
Well, the last of Barrett's privateers. Who knew becoming a broken man would say such a rough life could be the topic of a song. Who knew our pain could be recognized? Cheers and beers to recognizing the suffering of those in war.
rfish54 1 year ago
66gadus-its the real deal, he wrote the song, not a rendition.
heliops 1 year ago
I was at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and they adapted the song for their setting (England at war with Spain):
So Damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for Spanish Gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Colony pier
The last of Raleigh’s Privateers.
allikl7188 1 year ago
2 people dont understand how this is music
LGee89 1 year ago
@LGee89 Dey was da two b'ys we made walk da plank earlier. Dey'll get over it.
cabbitsd 1 year ago
superb song - superb rendition!
66gadus 1 year ago
speedboat pirate metal???
ridindirtyface 1 year ago