My Dad used to sing this to me when I was little. He was born in Bishop Falls, Nfld. ❤❤ God loves all Newfies. ❤
@KamikazziHamster12 жыл бұрын
Newfoundland is so much like Ireland it's uncanny... From the actual landscape right down to most of the culture. This music just proves it :3
@blacbraun2 жыл бұрын
NF folks are mainly Irish descendants.
@observant988 ай бұрын
Newfies are great people. A terrific sense of humour. A lot of the young people that would have been fishermen have moved to Ontario and Alberta.
@GTJIGPC5 ай бұрын
@@blacbraun Statistically it's actually much more English (double those of Irish heritage, per the census).
@artureksi41573 ай бұрын
:3
@AdenMcIsaac4 күн бұрын
@@GTJIGPC Also, this song, as evidenced by the placenames in the song like Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton's harbour, and Bonavista, comes from a part of Newfoundland settled mainly by English west country men.
@GK5_7 жыл бұрын
TWELVE YEARS SEARCHING FOR THIS SONG. Back in middle school Robert Munsch the author sang this song in my school gym here on ontario. Im having the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
@wanderover64175 жыл бұрын
YOU MET ROBERT MUNSCH?
@blameitonjack5 жыл бұрын
Brad H Yup.
@mikeq50735 жыл бұрын
Amen i remember those good old days in the 90s
@SpaceNigs4 жыл бұрын
This a southern Ontario type tale
@sean..L4 жыл бұрын
damn thats a cool memory
@mrcjc92982 жыл бұрын
When I first heard this song,I was amazed this is actually a Canadian folk song. I’m originally from Northern Ireland and this dialect is almost identical to the County Down Culchie (county bumpkin) accent. Never thought anyone else spoke like that.
@dayalasingh5853 Жыл бұрын
Atlantic Canada has large populations from Ireland and Scotland, in fact there used to a be a significant community of Irish speakers in Atlantic Canada and Nova Scotia still has some Scottish Gaelic speakers. As a Linguistics major Atlantic Canada really is so interesting.
@Countrybananas Жыл бұрын
It's not a Canadian folk song it's a Newfoundland folk song and Newfoundland is more traditionally Irish than contemporary Ireland. Ignore the maritimers trying to steal our culture like above.
@mrcjc9298 Жыл бұрын
@@Countrybananas if you want to hear the accent I was talking about, watch the video “you wouldn’t be too long getting frostbite” if you haven’t already done so. The guy is exaggerating a bit, but it’s how some people still speak.
@TsaristCossack Жыл бұрын
@@CountrybananasThe only culture in newfoundland is being a welfare leech and voting liberal
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
"Fella from Fortune" is another great Newfoundland folk song.
@brian6x8 ай бұрын
vrbo's superbowl ad brought me here! Nice music! love it. Makes me wanna visit Newfoundland!
@RobertWilliam-yu8gi7 ай бұрын
Beautiful country but the winters are too harsh for me. :)
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
I think you can expect better accommodation than featured in this commercial though. It's a satire of the usual VRBO commercial, right?
@jhonmaverick99638 жыл бұрын
This is the best band to listen to whenever you visit the pub. There songs are guarantee for a great time. A bonus if you get everyone to sing along.
@_Orphic_4 жыл бұрын
Born in Nova Scotia but my father is from Newfoundland and I lived there for a few years. My father used to play CDs with their songs on it in our truck. Grew up loving this type of music and still do :)
@mellymonstar63098 жыл бұрын
we learned this song at my school,and it's like the best song ever!!! I can't get it out of my head
@ajoofsmukus20074 жыл бұрын
Same
@rakiahbaker55894 жыл бұрын
I learned this in school too!
@Dimplez2713 жыл бұрын
@@rakiahbaker5589 I'm glad theyre still teaching it today!!
@tyrgould3 жыл бұрын
Yoo same it's my fav song so far in choir
@Ela.elizabeth3 жыл бұрын
I learned this in school when I was like 7 or something. I'm 30, and I can still recite every lyric. Lol!
@YourAverageMop3 жыл бұрын
"Damn Newfies!" -Every other province.
@truenorthgames6 ай бұрын
Haha not me any irish loves a newfie
@chrisd71178 жыл бұрын
My Nana used to sing this all the time. =) Happy Times
@talex4210 жыл бұрын
Aww my son could sing this song a mile a minute, way back when... he is a 'Spud Islander' LOL born in Prince Edward Island. still love Great Big Sea!
@Hey_its_Hazel20044 жыл бұрын
I'm from Newfoundland, I grew up listening to this song ❤
@localdude12204 жыл бұрын
Nan use to play that on the Accordion when I was little, she's from Petty Harbour 1895!
@darthkrypton6673 Жыл бұрын
I remember my granddad use to sing this when I was a kid whenever we'd go fishing.. such a massive trip down memory lane
@nosleepdelirium12144 жыл бұрын
This song hits my soul with joy like nothing else! Something in my blood comes alive with ancestral memory. I'm not an outgoing person but this forced me to get up and dance a jig in the living room with my two year old.
@merleawe_7 жыл бұрын
I'm from nova scotia and listening to stuff like this and seeing how people react to it reminds me just how much us Atlantic Canadians are all bunch of sailors. At least in heart :P
@chick3nuggets4life145 жыл бұрын
Oh, You Live In Canada To? Well I Live In Ontario :3
@TheArtimusMaximus5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Halifax, the Paris of the maritimes. Lol
@dingus36454 жыл бұрын
Me a classic Newfie here
@Benjiefrenzy4 жыл бұрын
@@TheArtimusMaximus I guess that means The Lower Deck is the Eiffel Tower or something
@caitlinhickey64 жыл бұрын
This is a traditional Newfoundland folk song and has absolutely nothing to do with Nova Scotia. You mainlanders need to quit taking parts of our culture and calling it your own. It belongs to Newfoundlanders.
@alexeinarson77993 жыл бұрын
lol I'm from the states but my grandmother would sing this to my dad as a child and only now have I heard it. gotta love us newfies
@kayleighbaker78022 жыл бұрын
Watching this in 2022, I realize people don't really make lyric music videos like this anymore. Its videos like this that helped me learn the words to any song twice as fast as just listening to it a thousand times in row. I love listening to songs like this a thousand times in a row, but man, do these early 2000s lyric videos tale me back to a simpler time.
@CyFr Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I can quite easily mistake Twillingate, Morton's Harbour as Tim Hortons Harbour
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
@@CyFr LOLOL!
@PolarRook12 жыл бұрын
I wish I was from Newfoundland... damn it Ontario. XD GO CANADA! :D
@jeremycamacho77936 жыл бұрын
Don't we all wish we were newfie
@Happygrowercbris4204 жыл бұрын
Lol
@dingus36454 жыл бұрын
Tbh honest Newfoundland is like a box of hell but I mean I like it so
@youngpanther52374 жыл бұрын
C. Elliot lol being Ian brought me here
@MistressGlowWorm3 жыл бұрын
I’m a southerner with German roots and I love this song. Party on, Newfoundland, party on.
@Sunshine5220012 жыл бұрын
Absolutely i agree i am born and raised Newfoundlander and proud to be!
@melyndakeith589 жыл бұрын
I loves this song. It's part of my culture. Sure I heard this song when I was a little youngster.
@pithhelmet37175 жыл бұрын
Thank you Newfoundland, very cool!
@approx4ft12 жыл бұрын
I learned this in Grade 2 in Northwestern Ontario! Loved it then, love it 15-16 years later
@deferrallburke30688 жыл бұрын
This was the band I grew up with, they got me into Irish music and my favorite one of their songs was the first song I listened to and have loved them ever since.
@max101gaming8 жыл бұрын
+Lane Burke This is not irish music it's canadian it is a newfoundland song
@swagster35668 жыл бұрын
It's not Irish, it's newfoundland music. I can see how you can mistake them though. alot of people who first lived in newfoundland were Irish.
@lindamaclean79414 ай бұрын
Love it, I am originally from Labrador and grew up listening and singing this song when I was a child.
@TheRoflknif9 жыл бұрын
I was born in the netherlands, grew up in new zealand and now living in holland again and i love this song
@rhysmarlatt68665 жыл бұрын
Ryan Burgers Are yOu FuCKeD?
@supermarioaceshorts2698 Жыл бұрын
I was looking for this and I sung it in THIRD GRADE
@MrStark2U3 ай бұрын
I've been looking for this song for 30 years!
@ClockworkCouture.10 жыл бұрын
I'm from around Toronto, jeez, even that far from the sea we sing this :) #SoCanadian
@ShermanNorvelle Жыл бұрын
Wow I was 15 in Goose Bay Labrador the last time I heard that 😊
@GTX11236 жыл бұрын
My Dad told me about this song and Newfie culture many yrs ago because when I was about 4 yrs old we lived in Newfoundland for one year (he was in the U.S. Navy). This is the first ever hearing it.
@xd_poutine31784 жыл бұрын
I’m glad I was born a Newfoundlander, when I go to my aunts for Christmas it’s a lot of guitars and my one fiddle XD gotta learn this song fast
@Floof_Da_Pom3 ай бұрын
midwestern american here... i learned this song in elementary school and an ad sparked the memory. tho i was taught it was Irish
@LeaElfArt8 жыл бұрын
I love this! Such a piratey feel
@alexbrenton28828 жыл бұрын
+Leanne Gibson something like that. the culture in newfoundland origins around the sea
@Sapphire-FlameMage8 жыл бұрын
+alex brenton Indeed she does! Not only that, we knows how to have a time!
@petercdowney3 жыл бұрын
That's understandable. I first learned this song from Pirate Falls at Legoland Windsor.
@LeaElfArt3 жыл бұрын
@@petercdowney That's cool!! Haha wow I forgot about this comment, it's been a whole 5 years!
@LizaLeech8 жыл бұрын
I'se The B'y that builds the boat and I'se The B'y that sails her and I'se The B'y that catches the fish and Brings 'em home to *ME*
@imaallex6 жыл бұрын
How was the dance?
@wanderover64175 жыл бұрын
Lol
@NatandGeorge5 жыл бұрын
heh. . . I see what you did there.
@flandyc45133 жыл бұрын
A tug on th' ol' fishin' pole will do er
@miaschannelforcommenting8 жыл бұрын
Born in China, raised in Ontario, and I CANNOT escape this song for some reason, it seems to be everywhere I go
@TheSpartan4518 жыл бұрын
As if that was a bad thing.
@churchill70717 жыл бұрын
Why would you want to "Escape" this song? ... OHH! Never mind I see now ... grrrr...
@dangreenwell75037 жыл бұрын
Yushan Cong Same. From Ontario and since my music teacher played this song for the class in first or second grade, it would randomly get stuck in my head.
@100robertjackson7 жыл бұрын
Yushan Cong p
@elaineflanagan73427 жыл бұрын
Mumford and sons
@ronbax29226 жыл бұрын
55 years ago, I was a USAF Radar Technician, stationed at the Stephenville, Newfoundland 640th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. My wife, Gail, gave birth to our son, Keith, at the Ernest Harmon AFB Hospital. It wasn't until a few years ago, reading "Fate is the Hunter", I discovered a number of aircraft had collided with the mountainside below our radar station in bad weather. While we weren't fond of the winter weather, Gail and I will never forget the fishing song, "I'se The B'y".
@DoctorLazers13 жыл бұрын
Had to sing this on stage for drama back in high school. I told em' I was a terrible singer but they assured me that was the point.
@MarkMorris-tr7ulАй бұрын
mclean and mclean brought me here ....iv been away from canada for a lifetime ...i just spent a week at Purbeck Folk Festival on the south coast of England ....And this tune would have been a perfect fit to hear .... so iv decided to learn this tune ...word for word ...so if ever i return ....well we shall sea eh?
@danielnshin7 жыл бұрын
While trying to sing my newborn to sleep, from the deep recesses of my memories, from kindergarten in Toronto, this crazy song comes up and I am singing and I can't for the life of me remember all the words but he is enthralled by the tune and breaks into a little smile. I miss Canada. What a wonderful country (but the taxes are too high).
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
There's a picture book featuring the lyrics of this song as a text. A pre-schooler in N.S. loves it.
@189Della14 жыл бұрын
ahhhh...how I miss home and this song brings back great memories from the rock !
@ohgraciej999 жыл бұрын
We're singing this for choir and everyone loves it!
@marinaamiller6 жыл бұрын
Was discussing old songs we sang in elementary school (Vancouver, Canada). This one stuck our whole lives, and this is the first time I've every googled it.
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
Didn't you hear a bit of it during the Super Bowl game? The tourist industry in N.L. is offended because this VRBO ad shows Newfoundland accommodation in a very negative light.
@chancewatkins50718 жыл бұрын
:D. Thanks for sharing; Jesus Christ Bless! :)
@WukongTheMonkeyKing2 жыл бұрын
I showed this to a friend who is learning English. First, only listening, she couldn't understand. Then, after reading the lyrics, she was even more confused. It was wonderful watching her slowly get it!
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
Newfoundland English is vital for someone learning English in every country in the world.
@aagmcginn77183 жыл бұрын
This is excellent!! I watched Anthony Bourdains episode in Newfoundland and a chap sang this at the end so been searching for it. A place I’d love to go some day!
@melyndakeith589 жыл бұрын
I'm also a Newfie.
@mercuryeuphoria50524 жыл бұрын
Me as well!
@mud53773 жыл бұрын
long may your big jib draw!
@TheNenaGanda0811 Жыл бұрын
I am not from Newfoundland but I really like this song! One day, I will visit Newfoundland too.
@895599Ай бұрын
Aurora
@hollywoodundead72 Жыл бұрын
So beautiful
@uh63483 жыл бұрын
im albertan, and my dad is a newfie. i somehow manage to slip an ''eh'' or ''-by'' in 80% of my sentences lmao
@moon_rose_xx24 күн бұрын
I'm from Vancouver Island and my dad is rural Ontarian. He lived in a community with a lot of Newfies and Nova Scotians. He picked up 'eh' and passed it on to me. Not many say it around here so I'm lucky to have gained some East Coast-ness, no matter how minimal :)
@GTX11234 жыл бұрын
I lived in Newfoundland for two years when I was a little kid (my Dad was in the U.S. Navy). Many decades later we were talking about living there and he was telling me about Newfie culture, accents etc. and he remembered this song from the one Newfie TV channel.
@caitlinhickey64 жыл бұрын
Quit calling us Newfie, Yank.
@GTX11234 жыл бұрын
@@caitlinhickey6 Well ol' Stompin' Tom Connor used it so if it was good enough for him it's good enough for me kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYapeYtreMd7n7M
@faemaiden50906 жыл бұрын
both of my parents where from Newfoundland but I was born and raised in Toronto we go back every six months or so (summer and Christmas) and I am still unsure of what the hell I am my identities clash like you wouldn't believe, but at least get fun music at family gatherings!
@lindahendry595 жыл бұрын
Recently seen on BBC tv sung by Catherine Ryan's mum.
@jennratcliffe13 жыл бұрын
IM WASTED AND I LOVE THIS SONG!!!
@TG1005665 жыл бұрын
Oh. My. Goodness. I found this song in my band book, I looked at the title and mentally said "I've heard that song before" so I looked it up. Now I remember, I learned this song in like 2 or 3rd grade music. This is great.
@139catt6 жыл бұрын
I'm from all the way on the other side of Canada (British Columbia) yet I grew up with this song and nothing can take away what it means to me haha
@chadyoung427210 жыл бұрын
back to the rock in july!!! newfie for life!! :)
@scgraffito10 жыл бұрын
I'm from Cape Breton meself, and we sing it too, eh?
@jennyn56925 жыл бұрын
I still remember this song from over 30 years ago, grade school music class. This song cracked me up so much that I could not stop laughing; the teacher was a little irritated that I kept disrupting class, haha. But this song stuck in my head all these years.
@johnnygag12 жыл бұрын
I Remember the song, from 50 years ago in northern Ontario Mr Miller, grade 5-6
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
@@johnnygag1I think I first heard this song in the early 1950s when Alan Mills sang it on CBC radio. Great folk singer! He sang other Newfoundland folk songs, too. I think he has an album out of Newfoundland folk songs on You Tube. Omar Blondahl is another early singer of Newfoundland songs.
@BBQFanNo17 жыл бұрын
Use to sing this at Summer Camp when i was a kid years ago. A leader would play acoustic guitar to the songs every day.
@Kai-mh6bk8 ай бұрын
We had to do this for a slideshow I love this song even tho I’m 17 but I’ll always love theses Newfoundland songs ❤
@VOCALOID40112 жыл бұрын
Oh god the joy this song brings me! It was my lullaby as a child and shall be the same for my child when I start a family in the future..
@Aurora-qn2dx3 жыл бұрын
Sang this Song in choir about 20 years ago..lovely moments lovely Song.
@christinab8385 жыл бұрын
Newfoundland for life!
@CeeQueue11 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was "Hip yer partner Sally Thibault." Learned this one in grade 6, and we all thought it was hilarious to sing "Hip her partner Charlie Brown."
@dinkster17296 ай бұрын
Great Big Sea doesn't recognize the French-Canadian name apparently.
@karlament693910 ай бұрын
By tynering g's boy. I want some of that screech. Listen to happy selling songs. Thank you for the Tunes lol
@TheCDisUnderMYDesk11 жыл бұрын
Mum used to sing this to me as a kid. Twelve years later I meet this awesome guy
@mahasmith99297 жыл бұрын
I'm Canadian and I have do this song in front of thousands of Canadians😂😂😍
@ashleydimas83265 жыл бұрын
We sing this in music class. I can sing this really good in the class.
@aidenzook819210 жыл бұрын
I love this song, it sounds awesome
@MickHuerta12 жыл бұрын
Distinct in that NL is England's oldest colony and Canada's youngest province... a legacy that flavours everyday we live and breath salt air!
@heritagelover2412 жыл бұрын
Whoever dislikes has no marine heritage - Shout from Long Island, Nova Scotia here.
@MySexychick91112 жыл бұрын
Newfieee's B'y. My whole family on my mothers side is from or lives in Newfoundland. My parents say i'm pretty much a newfiee, even though I live in Nova Scotia. aaah It's great to be Canadian.
@Caitgreenham3 жыл бұрын
I love this song..
@ninjaspartankx559 жыл бұрын
Man, there's nothing better to drink to, then a good Irish tune.
@bradsimpson87249 жыл бұрын
+Dante Wilson Or, you know, this song, which is assuredly NOT Irish. Fogo, Twillingate, and Moreton's Harbour(misspelled in the video) are in northeast Newfoundland, Canada, where the song originates.
@odinfromcentr29 жыл бұрын
Irish-inspired, yes, but most definitely Canadian.
@melyndakeith589 жыл бұрын
This song is actually a Newfoundland song. I know that because I was born and raised there.
@andrewgould66898 жыл бұрын
+Dante Wilson I know everyone already said this, but please don't mix us up, it pisses me off quite greatly.
@dududududududududududuhesa53417 жыл бұрын
Dante Wilson BOI I HATE TO BE RUDE BUT ITS NEWFIE MUSIC. IN CASE U HAVENT NOTICED TWILLINGATE AINT IN IRELAND *ahem* sorry it really bugs me when people confuse newfies for the Irish
@QueenofCountry1311 жыл бұрын
AWESOMENESS!!!!!! 😊
@quentin92953 жыл бұрын
How many of us had to sing this in a theatre room as kids?! lol
@BekkiUndSo12 жыл бұрын
Love hearing at in the kids show on WDR 5! Thumbs up for "Bärenbude"! XD "und jetzt kommt ein Lied aus Schottland!"
@hasanmeri24635 жыл бұрын
I love this song so much❤❤❤😄😄❤😄❤😄❤😄❤😄😄❤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
@Sojoboscribe4 ай бұрын
I actually learned this from Sharon, Lois, and Bram as a kid. It was one of three Newfie songs Bram did (the other two were Jack was Every Inch A Sailor and the Kerrygoo Soiree.)
@dramawebkinzforever13 жыл бұрын
Oh Canada! My home and native land. like this and send ur love out 2 Canada!
@Fogolicious11 жыл бұрын
Singing this in our College Choir. My last name is Fogo. Let's just say nobody can sing it with a straight face. lol I love it :)
@myla97419 жыл бұрын
I love this song!!
@catz13512 жыл бұрын
Thats nice. I live in glover town.
@greatsayain9 жыл бұрын
why is maggoty butter apparently edible but maggoty fish is bad. why would you eat anything maggoty.
@MangoAnimates9 жыл бұрын
greatsayain IDk. all i know is that Maggoty Fish is filled with maggots. I guess it;'s implying that the butter is very soft and melty. I really don't know.
@greatsayain9 жыл бұрын
Mango Productions maggoty butter must have maggots in it too. that can't be good. I wouldn't want either.
@MangoAnimates9 жыл бұрын
lol
@Ms1up1down9 жыл бұрын
I would assume you are not from Newfoundland if you don't understand our meaning of this!
@MangoAnimates9 жыл бұрын
I am only part Newfoundlander. So no, I am not from Newfoundland
@EliandIshtar4 жыл бұрын
sang this song in middle school choir and has been stuck in my head ever since
@mikaylahsbackup59807 жыл бұрын
that's the one I like keep the rhythm going
@audreyberner9295 жыл бұрын
When our daughter was very little, we saw a friend bringing home some fish. Our daughter announcedthat he must be taking them home to “Lizer”
@colemccallister838111 жыл бұрын
im am american but heritage and ancestry wise Scottish and Irish so i am Scottirsh my friends call me a hybrid but my point is i love this song first time i heard today i am 17 also major coincidence the girl i am in love with is named Liza lol
@jcool194513 жыл бұрын
@hurmpfff I believe that everything was outside and didnt have fridges so... the the food had some extra items attached to it.
@krissyhumphrey815011 жыл бұрын
xDD Play a Canadian song and we all come-a flockin, regardless if yer a Newf or from the opposite coast
@QueenofCountry1311 жыл бұрын
Doing this song in choir!
@sandrain554310 жыл бұрын
My nephew from Québec sing this ! She's really funny !
@pupstar692 жыл бұрын
My orff teacher at my school made me listen to this and I acually LOVE IT
@birbamour67 жыл бұрын
I sang this in Elementary school! It's such a fun song.
@Spineless-Lobster4 жыл бұрын
I remember singing this in grade 4, I just remembered it at like 2am so now I’m here!
@TurquoiseStar1711 жыл бұрын
Haha, Jet and Dave - loved that scene. Only problem is...they were singing it in the wrong province. It's about Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia ;)
@Glammazon12 жыл бұрын
I learned this from Jackie the mustic teacher at the Ottawa Child Study Centre, and I love it too.
@colereardon732611 ай бұрын
i met sean mccann the one who sang this song, it was suprising