Biography:
Gordon Bok stands out among the various artists that can be lumped into the "Traditional Folk" category. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to Camden, Maine and it was there in coastal Maine that Bok was influenced by sea-faring culture and its music. He released his first album in 1965 and in 1970 signed to Folk-Legacy records, where he released a number of solo albums, as well as many collaborations with Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett. In 1990 he began releasing music on his own label, Timberhead Music.
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- A Little Road And A Stone To Roll
- A Most Unpleasant Way Sir
- A Song For Angela
- A Tune For November
- All My Sailors
- Along The Famine Road
- An Diran Than Soulder
- Another Bay
- Apples In The Basket
- Astoria Bar
- Banks Of The Reedy Lagoon
- Bare
- Bay Of Fundy
- Belamena
- Bheir Me O
- Blackbird
- Boat Of Silver
- Bold Reynolds
- Broken Down Squatter
- Candlelight Fisherman
- Cannery Shed
- Canso Strait
- Cape Ann
- Changing Times
- Clear Away In The Morning
- Come By The Hills
- Connemara Cradle Song
- Coshieville
- Crossing The Water
- Dillon Bay
- Do Something
- Dublin City
- Duna
- Duncan And Brady
- Easy And Slow
- Faraway Tom
- Farewell To Nova Scotia
- Fiddler Of Dooney
- Frankie On The Sheepscot
- Freedom On The Wallaby
- Get Her Into Shore
- Going On
- Handsome Cabin Boy
- Hang On John
- Harp Song Of The Dane Women
- Herring Croon
- Hie Awa
- High Barbary
- Johnny Stewart Drover
- Shearers Lament
- Song For The Mira
- Song Of The Wheelhouse Door
- Southern Cross
- Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home
- Stone On Stone
- Stormy Weather
- Sufferin
- Swell Me Net Full
- The Angelus
- The Arbutus
- The Beaches Of Lukannon
- The Bird Rock
- The Boats Of Peters River
- The Brandy Tree
- The Bressay Lullaby
- The Kind Land
- The Last Battle
- The Liza Jane
- The Maiden Hind
- The Maiden In Birds Plumage
- The Net
- The Old Bard Song
- The Old Figurehead Carver
- The Parting Glass
- The Sands Of Dee
- The Shepherds Call
- The Stable Lad
- The Swag And The Shiner
- The Texas Song
- The Wreck Of The Green Cove
- These Dry Stone Walls
- This Old Mandolin
- Threeboot Philbricks Lament
- Tie Her Up
- Travelling People
- Trochus Boats
- Turn Ye To Me
- Turning Toward The Morning
- Waiting For The Rain
- Weary Of The Darning
- Weevily Wheat Wheat In The Ear
- Western Boat
- Where Am I To Go
- Wiscasset Schooners
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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It's just a pretty female, as you may understand
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Her mind being bent for rambling into a foreign land
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She dressed herself in sailor's clothes, or so it does appear
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And she signed with a captain, to serve him for a year
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The captain's wife, she being on board, she seemed in great joy
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To think the captain had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
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And now and then she slipped him a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
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But twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy
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Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl
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The sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girl
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But eating of the captain's biscuit, her colour did destroy
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And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Twas down the Bay of Biscay our gallant ship did plough
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One night amongst the sailors, a helluva flurry and row
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It tumbled the men from out their hammocks, their sleep it did destroy
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Terrible cursin' and a-groanin' of the handsome cabin boy
[Verse]
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"Oh doctor dear, oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry
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"My time has come, I am undone and I must surely die"
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The doctor come a-running and smiling at the fun
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For to think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son
[Verse]
Ab Bb
The sailors when they heard the news, they all did stand and stare
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The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear
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The captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy
Ab Bb
For it's either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy"
[Verse]
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Now sailors take your tot o' rum and drink success to trade
Eb Ab Bb
And likewise to the cabin boy that was neither man nor maid
Eb Ab Bb
Here's hoping the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy
Ab Bb
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more, like the handsome cabin boy
Bb Ab Bb
[Verse]
Ab Bb
It's just a pretty female, as you may understand
Eb Ab Bb
Her mind being bent for rambling into a foreign land
Eb Ab Bb
She dressed herself in sailor's clothes, or so it does appear
Ab Bb
And she signed with a captain, to serve him for a year
[Verse]
Ab Bb
The captain's wife, she being on board, she seemed in great joy
Eb Ab Bb
To think the captain had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
Eb Ab Bb
And now and then she slipped him a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
Ab Bb
But twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy
[Verse]
Ab Bb
Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl
Eb Ab Bb
The sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girl
Eb Ab Bb
But eating of the captain's biscuit, her colour did destroy
Ab Bb
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy
[Instrumental]
Bb Ab Bb
[Verse]
Ab Bb
Twas down the Bay of Biscay our gallant ship did plough
Eb Ab Bb
One night amongst the sailors, a helluva flurry and row
Eb Ab Bb
It tumbled the men from out their hammocks, their sleep it did destroy
Ab Bb
Terrible cursin' and a-groanin' of the handsome cabin boy
[Verse]
Ab Bb
"Oh doctor dear, oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry
Eb Ab Bb
"My time has come, I am undone and I must surely die"
Eb Ab Bb
The doctor come a-running and smiling at the fun
Ab Bb
For to think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son
[Verse]
Ab Bb
The sailors when they heard the news, they all did stand and stare
Eb Ab Bb
The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear
Eb Ab Bb
The captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy
Ab Bb
For it's either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy"
[Verse]
Ab Bb
Now sailors take your tot o' rum and drink success to trade
Eb Ab Bb
And likewise to the cabin boy that was neither man nor maid
Eb Ab Bb
Here's hoping the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy
Ab Bb
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more, like the handsome cabin boy
Gorgon City
Gori & Nekro
Goribor
Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Zoe