I'se The B'y - Great Big Sea - Lyrics ,

[@shelbylou02]

My Dad used to sing this to me when I was little. He was born in Bishop Falls, Nfld. ❤❤ God loves all Newfies. ❤

[@KamikazziHamster]

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

[@blacbraun]

NF folks are mainly Irish descendants.

[@observant98]

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.

[@GTJIGPC]

@@blacbraun Statistically it's actually much more English (double those of Irish heritage, per the census).

[@artureksi4157]

:3

[@AdenMcIsaac]

@@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_]

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

[@wanderover6417]

YOU MET ROBERT MUNSCH?

[@blameitonjack]

Brad H Yup.

[@mikeq5073]

Amen i remember those good old days in the 90s

[@SpaceNigs]

This a southern Ontario type tale

[@sean..L]

damn thats a cool memory

[@mrcjc9298]

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]

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.

[@mrcjc9298]

@@Nx0-o1i 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]

​@@Nx0-o1iThe only culture in newfoundland is being a welfare leech and voting liberal

[@dinkster1729]

"Fella from Fortune" is another great Newfoundland folk song.

[@moon_rose_xx]

Indeed, many Eastern Canadian provinces have a large amount of Irish and Scottish descendants. Nova Scotia = New Scotland in Latin. I'm from Vancouver Island and visiting the East Coast is definitely a bucket list item :)

[@brian6x]

vrbo's superbowl ad brought me here! Nice music! love it. Makes me wanna visit Newfoundland!

[@RobertWilliam-yu8gi]

Beautiful country but the winters are too harsh for me. :)

[@dinkster1729]

I think you can expect better accommodation than featured in this commercial though. It's a satire of the usual VRBO commercial, right?

[@_Orphic_]

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 :)

[@jhonmaverick9963]

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.

[@mellymonstar6309]

we learned this song at my school,and it's like the best song ever!!! I can't get it out of my head

[@AjHill15]

Same

[@rakiahbaker5589]

I learned this in school too!

[@Dimplez271]

@@rakiahbaker5589 I'm glad theyre still teaching it today!!

[@tyrgould]

Yoo same it's my fav song so far in choir

[@Ela.elizabeth]

I learned this in school when I was like 7 or something. I'm 30, and I can still recite every lyric. Lol!

[@merleawe_]

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

[@chick3nuggets4life14]

Oh, You Live In Canada To? Well I Live In Ontario :3

[@TheArtimusMaximus]

I'm from Halifax, the Paris of the maritimes. Lol

[@dingus3645]

Me a classic Newfie here

[@Benjiefrenzy]

@@TheArtimusMaximus I guess that means The Lower Deck is the Eiffel Tower or something

[@caitlinhickey6]

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.

[@alexeinarson7799]

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

[@darthkrypton6673]

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

[@nosleepdelirium1214]

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.

[@YourAverageMop]

"Damn Newfies!" -Every other province.

[@truenorthgames]

Haha not me any irish loves a newfie

[@chrisd7117]

My Nana used to sing this all the time. =) Happy Times

[@talex42]

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_Hazel2004]

I'm from Newfoundland, I grew up listening to this song ❤

[@kayleighbaker2511]

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]

Yeah, I can quite easily mistake Twillingate, Morton's Harbour as Tim Hortons Harbour

[@dinkster1729]

@@CyFr LOLOL!

[@localdude1220]

Nan use to play that on the Accordion when I was little, she's from Petty Harbour 1895!

[@MrStark2U]

I've been looking for this song for 30 years!

[@pithhelmet3717]

Thank you Newfoundland, very cool!

[@Sunshine52200]

Absolutely i agree i am born and raised Newfoundlander and proud to be!

[@miaschannelforcommenting]

Born in China, raised in Ontario, and I CANNOT escape this song for some reason, it seems to be everywhere I go

[@TheSpartan451]

As if that was a bad thing.

[@churchill7071]

Why would you want to "Escape" this song? ... OHH! Never mind I see now ... grrrr...

[@dangreenwell7503]

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.

[@100robertjackson]

Yushan Cong p

[@elaineflanagan7342]

Mumford and sons

[@GTX1123]

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.

[@approx4ft]

I learned this in Grade 2 in Northwestern Ontario! Loved it then, love it 15-16 years later

[@deferrallburke3068]

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.

[@max101gaming]

+Lane Burke This is not irish music it's canadian it is a newfoundland song

[@swagster3566]

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.

[@MarkMorris-tr7ul]

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?

[@lindamaclean7941]

Love it, I am originally from Labrador and grew up listening and singing this song when I was a child.

[@Floof_Da_Pom]

midwestern american here... i learned this song in elementary school and an ad sparked the memory. tho i was taught it was Irish

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

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!

[@dinkster1729]

Newfoundland English is vital for someone learning English in every country in the world.

[@danielnshin]

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).

[@dinkster1729]

There's a picture book featuring the lyrics of this song as a text. A pre-schooler in N.S. loves it.

[@ronbax2922]

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".

[@melyndakeith58]

I loves this song. It's part of my culture. Sure I heard this song when I was a little youngster.

[@aagmcginn7718]

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!

[@TheRoflknif]

I was born in the netherlands, grew up in new zealand and now living in holland again and i love this song

[@rhysmarlatt6866]

Ryan Burgers Are yOu FuCKeD?

[@xd_poutine3178]

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

[@PolarRook]

I wish I was from Newfoundland... damn it Ontario. XD GO CANADA! :D

[@jeremycamacho7793]

Don't we all wish we were newfie

[@Happygrowercbris420]

Lol

[@dingus3645]

Tbh honest Newfoundland is like a box of hell but I mean I like it so

[@youngpanther5237]

C. Elliot lol being Ian brought me here

[@MistressGlowWorm]

I’m a southerner with German roots and I love this song. Party on, Newfoundland, party on.

[@LeaElfArt]

I love this! Such a piratey feel

[@alexbrenton2882]

+Leanne Gibson something like that. the culture in newfoundland origins around the sea

[@Sapphire-FlameMage]

+alex brenton Indeed she does! Not only that, we knows how to have a time!

[@petercdowney]

That's understandable. I first learned this song from Pirate Falls at Legoland Windsor.

[@LeaElfArt]

@@petercdowney That's cool!! Haha wow I forgot about this comment, it's been a whole 5 years!

[@marinaamiller]

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.

[@dinkster1729]

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.

[@ClockworkCouture.]

I'm from around Toronto, jeez, even that far from the sea we sing this :) #SoCanadian

[@ShermanNorvelle]

Wow I was 15 in Goose Bay Labrador the last time I heard that 😊

[@TheCDisUnderMYDesk]

Mum used to sing this to me as a kid. Twelve years later I meet this awesome guy

[@GTX1123]

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.

[@caitlinhickey6]

Quit calling us Newfie, Yank.

[@GTX1123]

@@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

[@DoctorLazers]

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.

[@TG100566]

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.

[@CeeQueue]

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."

[@dinkster1729]

Great Big Sea doesn't recognize the French-Canadian name apparently.

[@supermarioaceshorts2698]

I was looking for this and I sung it in THIRD GRADE

[@189Della]

ahhhh...how I miss home and this song brings back great memories from the rock !

[@TheNenaGanda0811]

I am not from Newfoundland but I really like this song! One day, I will visit Newfoundland too.

[@895599]

Aurora

[@ohgraciej99]

We're singing this for choir and everyone loves it!

[@VOCALOID401]

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..

[@jenny5309-k3j]

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.

[@johnnygag1]

I Remember the song, from 50 years ago in northern Ontario Mr Miller, grade 5-6

[@dinkster1729]

@@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.

[@ninjaspartankx55]

Man, there's nothing better to drink to, then a good Irish tune.

[@bradsimpson8724]

+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.

[@odinfromcentr2]

Irish-inspired, yes, but most definitely Canadian.

[@melyndakeith58]

This song is actually a Newfoundland song. I know that because I was born and raised there.

[@andrewgould6689]

+Dante Wilson I know everyone already said this, but please don't mix us up, it pisses me off quite greatly.

[@dududududududududududuhesa5341]

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

[@uh6348]

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_xx]

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 :)

[@chancewatkins5071]

:D. Thanks for sharing; Jesus Christ Bless! :)

[@LizaLeech]

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*

[@imaallex]

How was the dance?

[@wanderover6417]

Lol

[@NatandGeorge]

heh. . . I see what you did there.

[@flandyc4513]

A tug on th' ol' fishin' pole will do er

[@chadyoung4272]

back to the rock in july!!! newfie for life!! :)

[@jennratcliffe]

IM WASTED AND I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

[@Kai-mh6bk]

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 ❤

[@139catt]

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

[@faemaiden5090]

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!

[@mahasmith9929]

I'm Canadian and I have do this song in front of thousands of Canadians😂😂😍

[@Mars2Point0]

So beautiful

[@karlament6939]

By tynering g's boy. I want some of that screech. Listen to happy selling songs. Thank you for the Tunes lol

[@MySexychick911]

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.

[@BBQFanNo1]

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.

[@MickHuerta]

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!

[@Aurora-qn2dx]

Sang this Song in choir about 20 years ago..lovely moments lovely Song.

[@heritagelover24]

Whoever dislikes has no marine heritage - Shout from Long Island, Nova Scotia here.

[@aidenzook8192]

I love this song, it sounds awesome

[@catz135]

Thats nice. I live in glover town.

[@christinab838]

Newfoundland for life!

[@Sojoboscribe]

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.)

[@melyndakeith58]

I'm also a Newfie.

[@mercuryeuphoria5052]

Me as well!

[@mud5377]

long may your big jib draw!

[@scgraffito]

I'm from Cape Breton meself, and we sing it too, eh?

[@peterb9432]

My high school English teacher in Montreal wrote that song when he was 15. We knew that he had done it, though not that he was so young. After university, I spent a couple of years working in Newfoundland. Bought a car, then returned to Montreal for a visit. When I was at a shopping centre, a random guy called out to me: "How's t,ings down de bay b'y?" Took a minute to realize that he had seen my Nfld. licence plate. I wish I had been able to deliver a response in kind.

[@lindamaclean7941]

He didn’t write that song, unless he is 150 years old. It was written in the 1800’s.

[@Fogolicious]

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 :)

[@QueenofCountry13]

AWESOMENESS!!!!!! 😊

[@BekkiUndSo]

Love hearing at in the kids show on WDR 5! Thumbs up for "Bärenbude"! XD "und jetzt kommt ein Lied aus Schottland!"

[@HobieHig]

Thanks, this is great fun.

[@quentin9295]

How many of us had to sing this in a theatre room as kids?! lol

[@lindahendry59]

Recently seen on BBC tv sung by Catherine Ryan's mum.

[@Caitgreenham]

I love this song..

[@dramawebkinzforever]

Oh Canada! My home and native land. like this and send ur love out 2 Canada!

[@EliandIshtar]

sang this song in middle school choir and has been stuck in my head ever since

[@ashleydimas8326]

We sing this in music class. I can sing this really good in the class.

[@myla9741]

I love this song!!

[@Tesiay]

Not surprising, this was the theme song of the singing show All Around The Circle. Gee, I miss those things.

[@audreyberner929]

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”

[@mikaylahsbackup5980]

that's the one I like keep the rhythm going

[@hasanmeri2463]

I love this song so much❤❤❤😄😄❤😄❤😄❤😄❤😄😄❤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@colereardon7326]

i met sean mccann the one who sang this song, it was suprising

[@teachyourkid]

Newfoundlander, that I be! We are Quigleys!

[@krissyhumphrey8150]

xDD Play a Canadian song and we all come-a flockin, regardless if yer a Newf or from the opposite coast

[@petercdowney]

I'm British. I was born in Tooting in South London, and have mostly Irish and Scottish ancestry, as well as some Austrian and French ancestry. I first learned this song from Pirate Falls at Legoland Windsor. Anyone else?

[@dinkster1729]

Legoland Windsor? Near Windsor Castle, U.K.?

[@petercdowney]

@@dinkster1729 Yes. Yes, it is.

[@Spineless-Lobster]

I remember singing this in grade 4, I just remembered it at like 2am so now I’m here!

[@meganjackson3175]

Newfie anthem right here 🙌 knows every word

[@scorpion19142001]

what's that got to with it? I live In Vancouver, B.C.. Never been to the Maritine. The point I'm making is I LOVE Good Canadian Ballets. The All of the Maritines is or shall I say Would be I would want to visit. As a major visit. Larry.

[@BrokenHeartedAngel11]

Uh, yeah, I thought that for the longest time! xD

[@AColonDashSix]

Good song to belt out after a few rips of screech

[@kaak1212]

@Rotonatutu touche i understand where you are comming from and i was born and raised in newfoundland but about the song yes you CAN classify it as Canadian but to be more precise you can say newfoundland music...still an amazing song