The Ballad of Flintabbatey Flonatin (The Flin Flon Song)

The Ballad of Flintabbatey Flonatin describes the founding and naming of Flin Flon, a mining town in Manitoba, Canada. The Ballad of Flintabbatey Flonatin was written by Jack Shiffman and recorded by Toronto bluegrass band Garrison Creek.

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Music

Tags:

• Flin Flon
• Manitoba
• Mining
• Garrison Creek
• Bluegrass
• Shiffman

[JackGAdams]

Well done, is Jack Shiffman singing the song as well? Many scenes very familiar to a old Flin Flon lad.

[cohenj45]

@JackGAdams Howard Shiffman (Jack's son) is the singer. We put this together as a gift for Jack's birthday. Thanks for the kind words.

[JackGAdams]

@bcbudful There you go ... I left there in 78 ..have a brother who still lives up there... if you check my channel you will find the song that I posted written by Irvin Freeze a great old friend of mine... will likely be near the bottom of my uploads as it was one of my first songs I uploaded to Youtube..

Jack

[bcbudful]

@JackGAdams was born there in 1974 left in 1980/81 and grew up in germany..never saw this place again..but i live now in canada again and i will visit it one day... miss it somehow..=)

[gw939]

I have the orginal 45 rpm of this song. I treasure it very much!

[aweezer13]

haha yea! Go daddy!