The Mummer's Song

A traditional Newfoundland Christmas pasttime

[@northerntraveller3180]

Cry every time I hear this song. Miss the old days, May God Bless.

[@katieroberts5170]

I love mummering my town is only populated about 100 and everyone knows everyone! I love it we go mummering on Tibbs eve and on the last day of school we dress as mummers and all go to the gym and guess who's who and eat tourneys and drink purity syrup! I love newfoundland

[@Nateb023]

Katie Roberts same where I'm from

[@morganhalfyard6266]

Ah a fellow newfy

[@Snack-well]

What is purity syrup?

[@lillianmorgancbc]

Missing my home,Nothing like a Newfie Christmas.Merry Christmas,Winter Solstice,Yule from ONTARIO.

[@daltenkeeping9488]

I love mummers song my favourite song thank you for my song

[@antikinetic]

East Coast Love! Thanks for sharing this classic.

[@ObjectLyn]

I love being in Newfoundland! I play this for Christmas every year!

[@tattoonewfie]

its great to see the mummers on here, wish i was home, merry christmas everyone from a newfie in ontario,

[@randomgirl13542]

This makes me cry im a newfoundlander and proud of it :')

[@lomgshorts3]

Mummers circulated in Sodus Bay, NY after 6 on Christmas Eve and it was a grand time! You New Foundlers don't have this alone! Anybody who lived by the Lake and worked on the Erie Canal or across the Great Lakes knew of the Mummers and sometimes participated. I was just a kid when I remember the Mummers visiting me and my Grandma when I was 6. Later, when I was 12 I went Mummering and enjoyed every year having fun.

[@Donna-sg6zs]

Cape Breton/Newfoundland combo I am, amazingly friendly and kind hearted people from both place💯🥰

[@Donna-sg6zs]

Thank you for the compliment, I'm from both places and we take pride in our hospitality 🙏

[@loragates2576]

MY THOUGHTS GO BACK TO WHEN I WAS A MUMMER,GOOD OLD DAYS, BACK HOME.

[@themerlinbbc]

I'm from BC, and we're doing a project on Mumming for Drama, and now i really want to come to Newfoundland to see this! :D

[@maidenrulz73]

themerlinbbc I thought you were Newfoundlander .....BC means “behind Carbonear” don’t it?

[@brill068]

Traditions are traditions.....God Bless them all.....they all mean something...thats what makes a tradition,,,,,

[@sylviajh14]

Moving from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland in a year or so. Hope I can join in on the fun!

[@audreyking4721]

That’s good old days would like to see again

[@SuperIsabelle20]

thumbs up if your a newfie !!! newfiess r the besttt ! :)

[@pohsideuhn]

My mom's from NL, and I really miss spending Christmas there, this was always a great time in community she's from. I just wonder if many people still do this.

[@squiddytag]

I have to go to Newfoundland at Christmas!!!!! Thanks for posting!

[@Neefyz]

I'm A Newfie How I Love Her True Beautiful Newfoundland Is Tha Best

[@tripout357]

im a newfie and i loves to go mummering one of the best nfld traditions

[@FnordKyuss]

Merry Christmas B'ys! From Kitchener Ontario

[@StephenTheHeathen624]

merry christmas shea heights god bless

[@Jourell1]

Mumming is a really old English tradition, essentially dressing up in costume and entertaining, singing and doing short skits. In Newfoundland, mummers traditionally go door to door around Christmas time and do their performances in return for a little bit of something to keep the cold out.

[@1LitreofCola]

i always wanted to do it, but never got around to it. tho they have come to my house several times when i was younger

[@NEWFIE78SAL]

i love this song wish i was in nfld for x-mas...next year

[@essteasea5463]

Hope you made it home!

[@p.e.i.man-canada-1372]

I remember my folks doing this once...

[@NovaScotiaNewfie]

Actually Mummering was done in Cape Breton as well..not sure if it' still happens like here on the island but it was done in NS as well...might have be a Scotish/Irish/celtic tradation?

[@Wotsitorlabart]

English origins.

[@DominiqueTheKitty]

I live in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. Im doing mummering for a school project. Me and my friend are doing it in our Social Studies class. It's going to be awesome!

[@guitarklown]

Love it!!!!!!

[@Olivercat5987]

This is so cool . Mummers come out at Christmas my mom told me that . This is a Newfie Christmas song 😺🎄🎅🏼☃️⛄️

[@Kellbee89]

some nice to be home for christmas :)

[@poetryjones7946]

This looks like such fun!

[@berniepynn]

no christmas like a newfoundland christmas.

[@royharvey7125]

you got that right

[@MacintoshZachintosh]

ANY MUMMERS LOUD' IN?

[@kiragabrielle]

I misses the days when da mummers would come in ^^

[@julyjoe88]

mummering is distinctly maritime and old Gaelic in nature it happends all over the maritimes, PEI NS but mostly on Cape Breton Island in NS, New Brunswick, and majorly in Newfoundland. just to put to bed what it is its basically a tradition were these people who are called the mummers come by houses on christmass and treat it almost like well holloween. idk why but its a tradition.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Originally an English custom.

[@captdb2000]

Right on bys

[@EvelynOccult]

> . < i hate being in the uk i miss this

[@newfoundlandgaming613]

by the mummers come to me house

[@BLONDSPOTPOWERLIFTER]

Excellent

[@thesecretgirlz]

makes ya want to go home now

[@johndenewf]

@DominiqueTheKitty glad you enjoyed the video, good luck on the project, with that kind of enthusiasm you will do well. very nice artwork on your page, well done.

[@AndrewJayMarks]

B'y my mom just made the toutans today and I'm off to college, she'll be freezin some for me for sure. Nothing beats a newfie christmas eh?

[@romans52345-cy3tq]

how she gettin on??? der's da keen row in st. bride's tonight!!!!!! by the cross of the jesus!!!!!!

[@AdventureNL]

This year I'm going mummering tonight marry Christmas everyone 2018

[@Keeshaxoxo1651]

I am a newfie and I am glad to be one

[@AndrewJayMarks]

Yeah, away form home, but Fortune will always be in my blood

[@StephenTheHeathen624]

right on byss

[@elizabethadcock7368]

Awww poor wiilie and neuf ... It's coastal

[@johndenewf]

Mummering is a long standing tradition with Gaelic and Celtic roots, its just done a little differently in Newfie. lol

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Not Gaelic or 'Celtic' in origin it is an English tradition that in the 1700's was transplanted to Ireland (note its locations in the North and the East).

[@StephenTheHeathen624]

i mummers still its deadly

[@NitroxKae1]

@Zea854856 By' We Got An Amazing Blessed Land Right??? Shes A Beut

[@MacintoshZachintosh]

Yes by da jeezuz da best song on da rock by

[@tills1974]

Be Proud newfies .....Be Proud!!

[@northerntraveller3180]

I like the version posted by IPWindsor (CBC 1986)

[@nokmuay1970]

What a great tration, dont let it die guys, sounds like great fun and good way to score some free drinks :P

[@wiliamcobb6070]

free drinks sweets for kid mummers a real celebration that goes on for about a week.

[@mitchnewhook8600]

No Christmas with out this song

[@clon19941219]

i am a newfy and im proud of it

[@tootscarlson]

Why the things over faces? Veil-type coverings?

[@kaylarideout2011]

@xThornMK3 i listens to it all year long

[@xomelani]

NEWFOUNDLANDERS COME HOME FOR CHRISTMASSS! lol

[@lazarlazar313]

Merry Christmas b’ys

[@NitroxKae1]

ANY MUMMERS LOUD IN ?!

[@RILEYPorter-ph5jh]

christmas is coming

[@pragmatic1ultramagnetic202]

You lads got this from Ireland you know.

[@Nateb023]

Pragmatic1 Ultramagnetic that's were we also got da axe cent

[@Wotsitorlabart]

​@@Nateb023 Mummers' plays are an English tradition. And the accent is predominantly an English West Country one.

[@Milk_____________________]

❤

[@johndenewf]

do not comment on something you know nothing about if you have nothing good to say.

[@Isla-s6q]

Why was this made illegal

[@DominiqueTheKitty]

@johndenewf Thank you very very much! I will do even better on my project now that i have some more modivation

[@jessejamespark]

ahahahah me favorite chistmas song :)

[@nancyann3525]

Really

[@ohno9273]

2018?? Anyone

[@NovaScotiaNewfie]

LOL ya lots of screech :P

[@wiliamcobb6070]

the irish goverment sent a delegation to nfld about 20 yrs ago to study forgotten traditions culture now is that not a hoot

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Which is odd because this is an English custom.

[@katieroberts5170]

Toutans*

[@xxxdddxxx3791]

This is exactly what Jesus would want.

[@alex035]

yees das da sheet

[@muinbrake6852]

Omg omg

[@sueltontullio9815]

Canadá\Newfoudland\Pernambuco\Brazil

[@zebrophile]

A solo harmonica version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HUpmCrrJeSrZo

[@FootsBob]

HAHAHA, Newfoundland is the ownage!

[@johnnyjoey]

46 Mainlanders don't appreciate good music!

[@mrgreen3529]

Hi

[@1i8m]

And people hate on us Québécois folks

[@TheRealCake]

They can go fuck themselves

[@KhristinaaTTV]

Any mummers aloud in b'y er wha?!

[@delzo2000]

@NovaScotiaNewfie he'll always be afriend of mind cause afriend of mine is a freind to Bill W.. I always think and speak of you from BILL < MY BUDDY GOD BLESS YOU ALL

[@MerkinMuffly]

Newfies spend more money on alcohol than any other province, but only because it's more expensive there. They also drink more beer per capita than any other province.

[@shawn.n.]

hi

[@lizedwards3438]

Wow sure makes me want to jump in the car & head east

[@1i8m]

K but this is actually fucking scary wtf

[@Ankhesenamunou]

You really cant appreciate mummering and other newfoundland traditions unless you are from newfoundland

[@austheboss10]

@johndenewf u nos dats rite bys n1 needs 2 no who ye b

[@johndenewf]

I think maybe u might have gotten the point, if not, this has nothing to do with race, U might want to do some research about something before you insult them with crude ignorant comments.

[@UISTMAN59]

@SexxyMessiah If it's roots are in Cornwall, then its roots are Celtic. If you had half a brain you'd know that.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

It's roots aren't in Cornwall.

[@thesecretgirlz]

Buhahahahaha

[@StephenTheHeathen624]

toutans r sick

[@randomgirl13542]

What a ruin of newfoundland spirt >:0

[@ironicjoke6190]

Whatever

[@stephaniedurdle7945]

love it