Hank Snow - The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee 1968 Tales Of The Yukon

[@wesleymattison3668]

Best version. Always loved this poem. It’s the only one I almost completely can recite from memory.

[@lucypotato8793]

My dad loved both of these guys, it was so perfect at his service...

[@africadreamin]

I have searched for this version since 1970 when I heard it on the radio one night in Merriden Western Australia.

[@obscenecolleen]

Thank you for sticking to the poem, Hank. 🇨🇦

[@Ppurk]

thank you Robert Service

[@lucypotato8793]

Thank you for this...

[@MrOldDC]

Our family grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia but my father was born in Western Shore, Nova Scotia. My father "lived and breathed" Hank Snow music and followed Hank Snow's rise to fame. My father could play and sing any Hank Snow tune on the guitar and won several contests too! Truly amazing! Of course, us four siblings were subjected to every Hank Snow album on my father's record turntable...complete with every needle scratch! Nice to see that Tales of the Yukon is alive and well on KZbin. The Cremation of Sam McGee is one of my favorites! Love it!

[@BurgerCity]

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful memory. A testimony to the impact of music, the soundtrack of our lives.

[@victoryinchrist8594]

Mr Old DC... Great story... Makes me miss Antigonish Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦....My father was from Amherst area my Great Grandfather and GrandFather St Peters area.... Here I am missing the Yukon where I lived for awhile and seen your comments and got home sick for the Celtic Gaelic land of New Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. My Grandmother taught school there. Thanks for your comments my whole family big Hank Snow fans. 🙋Greetings from Missouri USA 🇺🇸

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

My mom, born 1920 was much loved by her friends for her wonderfully humerous parrody-poems, she wrote about them, in a perfect 'Sam McGee' style. She raised me on that good mans work. Urge all, if they are not already aware, to look up the story of how, rich and famous, he joined the Paris 'Bohemian World' as an 'Non-Cognito who seemed relatively poor. Met a young woman who knew nothing about him. They fell in love and dispite the fact than 'Non Cognito' had no obvious prospects, were properly married'. For their 'Honeymoon', Robert Service took to the sea-coast and welcomed her into his Rich villa there. Can't imagine many other 'Brides' were ever more suprised by their new husband, than she must have been. Best of all they had a long happy marriage.

[@eliotreader8220]

lovely reading of the poem about the cremation of Sam MC Gee inside of a steam engine's fire box

[@lucynordlum9794]

Nice ! My dad’s favorite Robert Service rendition was by Stuart Hamblin, his chorus of the poems was very catchy….check it out!

[@jeffpotipco736]

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee...

[@pamwoodward6744]

" I'd often sing to that hateful thing-and it harken with grin!"!

[@drscruggs8472]

Not my math teacher noooo

[@connieeveritt5704]

lol😆😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂