Irish Descendants-Barrett's Privateers

Irish Descendants-Barrett's Privateers

[@DeimosPC]

Not even Canadian, I’m a Brit but I can appreciate this absolute banger

[@aperson9641]

Please stop being British

[@xKrypto98x]

​@@aperson9641 Im half Newfoundlander, half British. Chill out bud, you dont have any culture so stop being sooky and chatting shit

[@Patchypatch09]

Before lyrics I must have rewound this song a hundred times to learn the words. Just so I could get drunk and sing it. One of my all time favourite songs of any genre.

[@davesmith1886]

Patchypatch09 Let's drink to this song

[@MrAChigurhSr]

Me too guys!

[@Rat_Baron]

Still looking to drink and sing? If so, first round is on me.

[@cameronbrister8226]

Yes!!

[@Jane-yg3vz]

I used to think the lyrics were "I'm a drunken man on a Halifax beer". I thought he was talking about Keith's.

[@RaspoutinesGhost]

Reminds me of sitting in The Lower Deck in Halifax splashing more beer than we were drinking, good times.

[@RatchetSly]

Good spot, that

[@paddy1952]

There'll never be another Stan Rogers. Born in 1949, in Hamilton, Ontario, he died in 1983 in the Air Canada DC-9 that burned on the runway at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which is actually located in Covington, KY, USA. A contemporary of guys like Eric Bogle and Ralph McTell, he told a uniquely Canadian story in his own traditionally inspired way. I'd planned on attending his next show, in Newfoundland. He never made it. RIP Stan; we miss you.

[@_UPRC]

+John McElwain It's surprising just how young Stan Rogers was. His voice was so deep and amazing, he sounded so much older. It's sad, his career was JUST taking off. He could've lived so much longer and become such a major icon in Canadian music, even more than he is now.

[@crownedpleb9747]

At least there's some solace in the fact he didn't live to see modern day Hamilton and I say that as a Hamiltonian

[@paddy1952]

I live in Hamilton now. The place has its problems; but because of real estate realities there's significant change happening. Now it's become the place where younger people starting out in the GTHA can buy their first homes. Members of the Toronto arts community started migrating to Hamilton about five or six years ago. It's become a creative hot spot. With the new Go Station on Lower James St, and the imminence of daily Go train service, there are bidding wars over virtual shacks close to the Go Station. When the various upscale condo projects in the downtown come to fruition that whole area will improve. The people in those condos won't want to cash cheques or get tattoos, they'll want Starbucks and Holt Renfrew. I bought property and moved here over four years ago and I'm very glad I did. Hamilton is a great place to live, and it's getting even better.

[@keitheckensviller250]

He died a hero. Stayed on the plane to help guide other passengers through the smoke to the exit. He made it out but the damage to his lungs was to much.

[@Reziac]

Way I heard it, from someone who was a close-following fan of both Stan and Garnet, Stan actually went back inside to try to save more people. Otherwise he'd have lived to make a song of it.

[@shrimpcupnoodle2574]

We listened to the Irish Descendant's version of this song in my junior year AP English class, and here I am 14 years later, still have this song still in my head, and so happy the sea shanty phase came around so more people can enjoy it too! I love the harmonies in it as well.

[@carolcunningham7646]

My friends like this song. we're @ like this prison camp, well in NY u must have freedom, wee fought for iyyit but they tore apart those in nazi Europe and stuck it " glumpy" here. My friends mean alot to me and whee just welcomed another one yesterday.🐒🐆🦝🐈🐈‍⬛🦣🦙🐽🐄🐭🐿🦨🐾🐧🐦‍⬛🪻🌼🌻💐🏵🥀🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍃🍂🌱

[@GallopingGirl-po9tz]

Love being part of the Barrett family. Newfoundland will always be my home

[@theulfheinn1997]

When you're an Adams and from the deep south of 'Merica so you can't relate.

[@tailbonetailbone9380]

Michael a Brazilian Vidal here. At this point I've lost hope to relate! Lol

[@emmaphilpott]

A Philpott from Coachmen’s Cove, here. Newfoundland proud, Newfoundland strong.

[@user-xo5lc1iv1p]

Nice to know your ancestor ruined some poor lads lives 🙏🏽

[@lucasjames1771]

I’m an Aussie and a screeched in Newfie, it’s a beautiful place.

[@wasteofspace1234]

Some people in the comments seem a little confused. This is a cover (a very good one) of a Canadian folk song. Having said that it's a fictitious and relatively modern folk song even though it tells an accurate story of Canadian privateers in the American Revolutionary War. In fact it comes to us from the great Stan Rogers circa 1970-something. The reference to Sherbrook is probably to his family's place of origin in Sherbrook Nova Scotia, despite that town not being incorporated until the 19th century. The song is associated with the Canadian East Coast, Maritimer parties and the Royal Canadian Navy. Source: Wikipedia and stuff so it must be right O.o

[@GlassDeviant]

Well, I don't know about a very good one, this version is almost wooden and mechanical by comparison to the original. Technically it's "perfect" but the real deep feeling is missing. You can tell it's just a bunch of guys singing a song, whereas Stan Rogers sung it with feeling, as if he really were the character painted by the songs story. If only he'd lived to a ripe old age instead of dying so young, there'd be a lot more of his music to be enjoyed.

[@johnkeenan9834]

Totally agree, the origins of this song are lost as Stan is long gone and didn't leave any specifics as to how this song came to be. A lot of these pub songs do have some "weak links" to actual history as they are all compendiums of different oral traditions that have been passed down and around for God know how long. Point being is that these songs were not written as historical lessons but to entertain. The really neat thing about this song is that it turns out there was actually a individual by the name of E Barrett who was a loyalist who left Boston in 1774-75 to take a position with the British Admiralty in Halifax. That was his official post. He also had private interests, including owning several fishing vessels. Turns out Mr Barrett did provide one of his vessels (don't know the name but let's assume Antelope) to the RN for "privateering duties" during the American Revolution. Not sure whether he actually sailed her or not but no doubt he survived - "English Gentlemen" of that era did not jump on ships and become privateers but they did reap the rewards of privateering enterprises. But the fact is there is a fairly large kernel of truth to the song.

[@greatsayain]

DanTheDragonslayer In what sense is it fictitious if it tells an accurate story? Maybe Sherbrook is a town in the UK. Many towns in Canada are named after places in the UK.

[@wasteofspace1234]

greatsayain A poor choice of words on my part. I meant there were indeed Canadian privateers during the war, and indeed armies, but this particular story is of Rogers' creation. As for Sherbrook, if the protagonist's dear Sherbrook was in the UK then why would he spend six years making his way back by way of Halifax?

[@GlassDeviant]

There are several Sherbrookes in Canada. One would assume that since he's in Halifax, and the nearest Sherbrooke is also in Nova Scotia, that's the one he is referring to. Folk is also pretty big in Nova Scotia, even to this day.

[@Wanlingnic]

I love how all the voices harmonise! They sound so beautiful singing together!

[@RatchetSly]

I have been part of spontaneous pub singalongs for this tune twice. Probably helps that said pubs were a few minutes' walk from the Halifax piers. A great time

[@Solo_Videos]

This is the sound of my childhood, it brings back so many memories.

[@KaimanToa]

This is the most authentic canadian irish music i've ever heard. I have heard so much cultural Irish music and this is by far one of the most authentic cultural music piece ever written. I'm touched.. its great,. gidgshit must be tone death

[@Jashin325]

As much as I love The Irish Descendants, no one can ever top Stan Rogers with this song

[@musicmaster8474]

Hell yay Stan yoger has got it down

[@ggeeoorrggiiaa]

Jashin325 I must disagree. The real makenzies did an even better job

[@jacobwalsh1888]

This is my favourite version. I think it rolls better than the original.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Listen to his son Nathan Rogers sing it and you’ll swear it’s like listening to Stan himself.

[@WntrWolf]

I love these guys. When my daughter was a little girl we would listen to Gypsies and Lovers and sing this song every morning

[@z0mb1nat3r]

i cry from happiness every time someone mentions or covers Stan Rogers. soo much great music missed out on from a life cut short

[@ImpulseFilms]

I heard this song on Grooveshark and it took me so long to find the same version. I'm so happy I did!

[@Lightgirl715]

Wonderful! Perfect harmony....love it.

[@christinabennett1668]

I was raised on this music. I absolutely love it. It is unique just like Canada. Remember a lot of us who are irish decended have been in north america since the seasonal fishermen of the late 1700s. This is talking about the amercian civil war.

[@FyremaelGlittersparkle]

The American Civil War happened between 1861 and 1865, so if the first line says "The year was 1778" how could this have happened during the American Civil War? It's actually referring to the Revolutionary War, which started in 1776.

[@281Alexman]

Jack Cordial its talking about Canadian Irish men discovering American and on the way to U.S the ended up in a war.. that's what it means

[@FyremaelGlittersparkle]

***** I hate to break it to you, but A) the Irish didn't discover America/(American what?), B) certainly couldn't/wouldn't have done it during the later half of the 18th century, when it was already a series of English colonies and was not yet the United States, and is, most certainly C) about Canadian privateers operating under the auspices of the English King during the Revolutionary war targeting American merchant and Naval vessels in an attempt to raise revenue for the war and to break American naval strangleholds on certain portions of the Western Atlantic seaboard. Certain portions of the song don't mesh, historically speaking (i.e. Sherbrooke), but you have it totally wrong. I would recommend that if my assertion isn't enough for you that you do some further research into the history of this song. I think you'll find I'm spot on, man.

[@dawnmorris3718]

Jack Cordial oh you are so spot on! My husband who is not only a Stan Rogers fan, he knows quite lot about the Civil War and others......so jolly well done!

[@rosestewart1606]

Christina Bennett sorry but at one time Nova Scotia was over 70 percent Scottish and Cape Breton was close to 100 percent. Irish went to Newfoundland.

[@NessyNess182]

Proud Canadian/Irish here. This Beeeeautiful.

[@ironikkronik]

My bois and I sing this while floating the upper current river in missouri!

[@aonghas100]

Stan Rogers would love this ..Man. nice job.

[@MOI-qq8zc]

My favourite band ever!!

[@RR-oj1jj]

this is the best version of this song I've heard! great job!

[@blablaman101]

God Damn them all.

[@fullanalysis93]

I love this song, and this cover is my favourite rendition.

[@captinpoko5261]

best Newfoundland band on the rock

[@steveearle9693]

Had this discussion the other day with a co worker

[@thomaskemper8336]

Thank you for these songs thanks have a great day.

[@MaximumChampion]

This version is the dominator.

[@boatymcboatface2994]

Great job Guys. Southern Shore all the way hahaha

[@johnsimmons8234]

Proudly from Dartmouth!!

[@tinacorbet4705]

darkside

[@huho9686]

god damn them all

[@williamjenkins4913]

Party In The USA Its not to our taste but if say The Dubliners did a song about a homesick girl finding comfort and friendship through the power of music I think we would both love it. Also we have the advantage here of listening to an old musical heritage where all the great songs have been brought forward and condensed into a deep thing. The playlist I was listening to spanned hundreds of years of musical history. Compared to the last 40 of modern pop of course one will offer more.

[@Rikki0]

The actual story of this song is told here on KZbin by the writer himself, Stan Rogers. A Canadian. He was hanging out for a weekend with a shanty group called "The Friends of Fiddlers Green" and he said they all knew the words to all the songs and could sing the leads in them. He said he wanted a song he could sing the lead in himself, so he simply wrote this song for no other reason than that. There is no real history to it. Just something he threw together for fun. Of course, Stan "throwing" a song together is kind of like Einstein "throwing" a mathematics formula together. He once managed to work a meaningful reference to Rodin's "La Belle Heaulmiere" into a song about a farmer's wife. (Lies). :)

[@Trollificusv2]

His grasp of the history and jargon is as remarkable as the tune is irresistable! Not many can "knock off" a classic like this for funsies.

[@seaninflorida9741]

thanks for the details.

[@cashgillespie9808]

Love this song! Greetings from Alabama, long live the Confederacy!

[@rosestewart1606]

Cash Gillespie lol I guess you know we helped you guys out just a bit.

[@NadiaClawson24601]

favorite version of this song

[@williamredfern2683]

What a great song,,l keep playing it

[@krumple8560]

"Cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags" should have been a clue to the perspective crew. Great cover of a great tune. Thank you Stan and thank you Irish Descendants.

[@francistarkenton545]

What exactly does that mean? Sure doesn’t sound good.

[@krumple8560]

@@francistarkenton545 Scuppers are the drains on the sides of a ship's deck and "the staggers and jags", is a euphemism for delirium tremens resulting from alcoholism.

[@francistarkenton545]

@@krumple8560 Thanks for that. It indeed does not sound good at all.

[@irishfield1]

Top song ever will stand time thank you

[@jmhinnen]

Such a tragic song set to such upbeat music; quite the juxtposition, it is.

[@deborahallen3349]

SoCal, one of Stan's best, still miss his music.

[@bluenit64]

I love this tune, why don't we ever hear music like this in movies?

[@chadmorse7318]

New Brunswick Bay of Fundy. Close enough! Woooo 😀

[@krabvonchefenstein5753]

The best version of this song imo! Dont care where it came from all versions allowed!!! MVH Krab/Sweden

[@carolcunningham7646]

Ime on my way to canada. There they have us canadolls. I salute you, nova scotia. 😮

[@tubemonks]

Amazing harmony. I love it and it requires no musical instruments either.

[@LeoGnarleyardo]

DanTheDragonslayer well actually after Stans first album he slowed down on song writing for a while. He was spending time with a lot of guys in the port who sang some pretty great shanty's and he wanted to sing lead. So he wrote his own shanty.

[@tanidn]

This cover version is beautiful!

[@dontworryimlegit778]

#novascotia I love Nova Scotia folk music.

[@tahirabell7469]

Don't Worry, I'm Legit they are from Newfoundland

[@chubbybunny6975]

@@tahirabell7469 The song is literally talking about wanting to be in Sherbrooke Village here in Nova Scotia, and about being on the pier in Halifax, which is also in Nova Scotia. This band isn't the original singers of the song, and it's a song about Nova Scotia.

[@steammaker24]

@@chubbybunny6975 claudia isn't wrong, but do you have to get so defensive about the song? we know it's about Nova Scotia, no need to be pissy

[@reflex0r]

Love this song.

[@rachelhood402]

Any Nova Scotians here?

[@josieemma4584]

Rachel Hood Yup!😂🤚🏼

[@sandramacdonald7492]

I am. :>

[@abjectt5440]

Cole Harbour.

[@crashstitches79]

I'm a Cunningham, my folks were there a hundred-plus years ago. Now we're in Texas.

[@scottbuchanan404]

Close. Moncton!

[@carolcunningham7646]

Well, yeah. Wee crossed the Bearing Strait 1st!🎉

[@Custodian405]

That is some fucking Canadiana. Drink up boys.

[@281Alexman]

I love this song

[@rickcoona]

Great harmonies here, well worth the ear time. Faithful rendition. Most merchant barks carried 18. Twenty four pounders and four swivel guns.. A leaky sloop with perhaps six or eight four pounders ( cracked at that) is simply no contest. The exploding cannons probably killed more crew and a *Single* twenty four pounder would be enough to sink her! (FYI: the weight mentioned is that of the cannon balls being fired, *NOT* the weight of the cannon)

[@stormyandstar7731]

Saw jack white perform this song in Halifax nov 14, was awesome cover!

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Stormy and Star Pity KZbin doesn’t have it, I’d have liked to hear that.

[@annafisher352]

I loved it when this song was on Star Wars.

[@FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509]

Star wars??

[@swmg4580]

Its satire you dummies

[@Trollificusv2]

Yeah, you're thinking of Big Bang Theory.

[@keatonwright5764]

that's not what satire means you dummy

[@caulirice]

this song fucks

[@wiliamcobb6070]

their best redition of any song is let me fish of cape marys

[@alexhalstead8824]

If I can ever listen to this song without tears in my eyes, I've been replaced by a robot.

[@patchrockit]

best cover/version/timing/harmonies/length

[@equestriansheridan]

my pipi taught me this song when i used to sail with him.

[@aperson9641]

Why did your dong teach you this song

[@redepkank]

Best song ever

[@peterogers2]

No it's not quite that because it's a shared transatlantic tradition based on the English halyard shanty. It's a great and distinctive example, however, one of the best of them all from either side. Inspired by a story from Bill Howell, a Halifax poet.

[@davyjones4872]

A letter of marque, muahaha. Send those Privateers to the detphs! We R' Pirates, after all...

[@natarito2056]

🎶I've got a jar of dirt!🎶 I've got a jar of dirt!🎶

[@T-Rex_Slap]

Growing up in Ontario I am envious of the East Coast for having such a rich history and sense of community. The closest thing I had to that was my Polish background. Other than that Ontario is just infrastructure and work. If the world was like the East Coast things would be a lot nicer all around.

[@DaTehPlebMaster]

ok? this vid so old dude

[@bobt4260]

The Irish Descendants, Nautical Nellies Good Times!, ...sigh

[@SirAtomikBoom]

I'm actually from Sherbrooke

[@EdgarStyles1234]

Too bad you're French though, just kidding

[@PotterPossum1989]

Oh God, this American thought it was Sherbert. Leaving in shame now.

[@concars1234]

@@EdgarStyles1234 the song is actually referring to Sherbrooke nova scotia not Sherbrooke quebec I was confused by this too as a quebecker

[@EdgarStyles1234]

@@concars1234 sherbrooke was a famous general i think he had plenty of places named after him

[@concars1234]

@@EdgarStyles1234 tru I suppose it could be quebec. either way this song makes me patriotic. but since Stan Rogers is from the maritimes I assumed he had the NS town in mind

[@Wildcat_93]

My name is also Brandon and I to have ties to the Butler lineage of Ireland. Hahaha small world afterall eh?

[@markhenderson2685]

My late fathers faverate song

[@lucasmackenzie9527]

Any 2019 Nova Scotians here

[@ethanwood9124]

Lucas Mackenzie yes

[@7UDRO]

Nah, Italian guy digging folk music, starting from alestorm albums 😂

[@kalemdoucette1882]

PEI

[@thestabrovers7444]

Yup.. Lunenburg county... Just came here thinking about trying this tune this weekend.

[@abjectt5440]

Living in Dartmouth.

[@jessemarcus]

RIP Stan Rogers

[@altareggo]

Don't forget William Schatner!!! Kapitan Kirok couldn't exactly sing, but he provided us with a LOT of great entertainment over the years... check out his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds for example: pure comedy!! It won a poll for "Worst Beatle cover of all time" - and very deservedly so. He did the same thing to Dylan with his "iconic" (to be kind, lol!) rendition of Mr. Tamborine Man. Kanadian to the Kore.

[@4amknews478]

HAPPY ST.PATRICKS DAY. LETS PARTY LIKE ITS 1778.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

St.Patrick's Day 2020... cancelled in Chicago...

[@gregkral4467]

I do love this version, a little more than Stan's, i know, blasphemy but.... dang... thanks for sharing.

[@goblinnpc9741]

Don't forget, wintersleep. :)

[@LedRush93]

you forgot BTO, Triumph and the Payolas. But preach it brother!

[@joeyj6808]

God damn them all!

[@roberthiscock1759]

Love's it I do indeed.

[@rainerroepel4701]

I love Music

[@carolcunningham7646]

I know someone born in Fall River. I search my maps and find things all over the world. I have to go someday, so why not know the best places.🎉 4:18

[@460448e]

thanx i do

[@williamjenkins4913]

You said it much better then I.

[@Flubly]

Good lord whoever engineered this recording needed to lay the hell off the compression.

[@xypaddy1]

Umm...you forgot someone...one of the BEST talents ever to come out of Canada. Still going after 40 years...4th on the consecutive gold record list...3 people many consider the BEST at their insturments....I'll leave you guessing !

[@LedRush93]

Well ya don't have to call an entire people thick. Granted this song is by Stan Rogers from here and Nova Scotia but you can't expect the whole world to know that

[@1headphoneguy]

Shout out to my fellow Prince Edward Islanders!

[@JosephJamesScott]

I really like this cover of the Stan Rodger's classic. In fact I think I might like it more then the original.

[@sutubeism]

fav

[@ryanmacphee427]

I'm full cape Breton er that lives on Edmonton Alberta Canada

[@kmikl]

Sugary gum brings a lot of joy emotion to people, but not a lot of fulfillment. Most of the time, music is a way to convey emotions or tell a story and such, but popular music doesn't require this. Look at the genres I listed above, and tell me which pop artists reach the same depth (lyrically or artistically) as most pop artists today. If you can, please tell me, I've been trying to find something redeeming about the genre that took a dive in the mid-70's and never quite recovered.

[@Evan99997]

hey in case u guys didnt know from the other 264 comments, this is actually canadian!

[@mowermen1762]

296 now

[@RenaRoo123]

Great song but Stan Rodgers has this song down on lock. Just can't beat it

[@benjanini]

I'd like to apologize on behalf of my country for Bieber. I don't know what we were thinking.

[@slomogecko9906]

Eh. The US broke him, they can keep him.

[@CBDiamond]

Jesus this song isn't by miley useless comments this song is pure nova scotian classic bi just loves this tune

[@bahamut6662]

Actually this is pure Newfoundland as are the Irish Descendants have seen them live and have been in their Pub in St John's.

[@travisboyce6661]

Bahamut666 bud. She's by Stan Rogers, who was from Ontario but called Nova Scotia home. The song is about landing in Halifax. Pure Bluenoser tune. You guys can have Aunt Martha's Sheep (great song), we'll keep Barrett's lol

[@steammaker24]

+Travis Boyce But as Bahamut666 says, this band that's singing this song is from NL, nowhere did they say that they were the ones to make the song. I like this version but the guy who wrote it is also excellent as well. cheers!

[@robertchristie1216]

Go Halifax!

[@kmikl]

I like that way too. I prefer hearing things like "Get out ye Black and Tans" in that setting, but hearing the lyrics as recorded in a studio helps get over the misinterpretations of live recordings.

[@jackhass5245]

Hey you missed Honeymoon Suite, Refugee, Toronto, Kick Axe, Helix, Bim, Anne Murray (ok sorry for that 1) Kim Mitchel Coney Hatch

[@barachoisboy]

my apologies sir. I was unaware that a middle aged loser behind a computer in Ireland was the authority on maritime canadian music. We were the ones at the kitchen parties over here with our accordions, mandolins, guitars, bodhrans, etc. playing the music ourselves. The irish descendants are from newfoundland, a place youve never even been. not ireland. they do not wish to present the music with the "subtlety" of the Pogues..lmao.

[@theweinmeyerrepublic1097]

Opinions on music being subjective and all I personally find this a bit to calm and fast. I just prefer the way Stan Rogers belts it.

[@Wwr32296]

Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

[@threenorns3]

@jmhinnen that's the irish for ya! (even when they're canadian, lol)