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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Other songs:
- 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]
E D E
[Verse]
A D A E
I am living dry and placid now, among encircling mountains
D A D A B E
An old man still remembering the days that used to be
D A F#m C#m
But I close my eyes and live again, those days of sweat and laughter
D A E A E
When we worked the trochus luggers in the western Coral Sea
[Verse]
A D A E
Sailing in a black hulled lugger with a lookout at the masthead
D A D A B E
You may drift along the coral cays and anchor where you please
D A F#m C#m
In the glassy leeside waters of some rocky offshore island
D A E A
Though the outer reef be trembling under pounding whitened seas
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A E
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
[Verse]
A D A E
You may anchor calm and safely in the shallows over coral
D A D A B E
Where the waters glimmer peacock in a hundred shifting shades
D A F#m C#m
You can hear the rippling wavelets tinkle gently on the beaches
D A E A
And the stays and braces thrumming in the southeast trades
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A E
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
[Verse]
A D A E
To the north of Lizard Island and to the south of Iron Range
D A D A B E
In my dreams I am returning to the place where I would be
D A F#m C#m
To the laughing Torres Straitsmen singing softly in the twilight
D A E A
To the trochus lugger's anchorage in Princess Charlotte Bay
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E D E
[Verse]
A D A E
I am living dry and placid now, among encircling mountains
D A D A B E
An old man still remembering the days that used to be
D A F#m C#m
But I close my eyes and live again, those days of sweat and laughter
D A E A E
When we worked the trochus luggers in the western Coral Sea
[Verse]
A D A E
Sailing in a black hulled lugger with a lookout at the masthead
D A D A B E
You may drift along the coral cays and anchor where you please
D A F#m C#m
In the glassy leeside waters of some rocky offshore island
D A E A
Though the outer reef be trembling under pounding whitened seas
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A E
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
[Verse]
A D A E
You may anchor calm and safely in the shallows over coral
D A D A B E
Where the waters glimmer peacock in a hundred shifting shades
D A F#m C#m
You can hear the rippling wavelets tinkle gently on the beaches
D A E A
And the stays and braces thrumming in the southeast trades
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A E
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
[Verse]
A D A E
To the north of Lizard Island and to the south of Iron Range
D A D A B E
In my dreams I am returning to the place where I would be
D A F#m C#m
To the laughing Torres Straitsmen singing softly in the twilight
D A E A
To the trochus lugger's anchorage in Princess Charlotte Bay
[Chorus]
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
D A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
E A
Laddie oh..., Laddie ay...
Gorgon City
Gori & Nekro
Goribor
Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Zoe