Biography:
Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. The band also performs original material.
On March 11, 2010, Great Big Sea celebrated their seventeenth birthday as a band. And like almost every one of their many anniversaries spent together, they celebrated it by playing a concert, this one in Omaha, Nebraska. For the players it was an important landmark
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Other songs:
- A Boat Like Gideon Brown
- French Shore
- Harbour Lecou
- Mari Mac
- Old Black Rum
- The River Driver
- When I Am King
- Bad As I Am
- Banks Of Newfoundland
- Barque In The Harbour
- Beat The Drum
- Born To Believe
- Boston And St Johns
- Buying Time
- Cant Stop Falling
- Captain Kidd
- Captain Wedderburn
- Clearest Indication
- Cod Liver Oil
- Come And I Will Sing You The Twelve Apostles
- Company Of Fools
- Concerning Charlie Horse
- Consequence Free
- Dance Dance
- Dear Home Town
- Demasduit Dream
- Dont Wanna Go Home
- Dream To Live
- End Of The World As We Know It
- England
- Everything Shines
- Excursion Around The Bay
- Fast As I Can
- Feel It Turn
- Ferryland Sealer
- Fishermans Lament
- Follow Me Back
- French Perfume
- Goin Up
- Gone By The Board
- Good People
- Graceful And Charming
- Hard Case
- Have A Cuppa Tea
- Heart Of Hearts
- Heart Of Stone
- Helmet Head
- Here And Now
- Hit The Ground And Run
- How Did We Get From Saying I Love You
- I Havent Seen You In A Long Time
- Im A Rover
- Ise The By
- Its The End Of The World As We Know It
- Jack Hinks
- Jakeys Gin
- John Barbour
- Jolly Roving Tar
- Josephine The Baker
- Let It Go
- Let My Love Open The Door
- Live This Life
- Long Lost Love
- Love
- Love Me Tonight
- Lucky Me
- Lukey
- Margarita
- Mari
- Mary Mac
- Mermaid
- My Apology
- Nothing But A Song
- Nothing Out Of Nothing
- Oh Yeah
- Old Polina
- Ordinary Day
- Own True Way
- Penelope
- Protest Song
- Rant And Roar
- Recruiting Sargeant
- Road To Ruin
- Rocks Of Merasheen
- Run Runaway
- Sally Ann
- Scolding Wife
- Sea Of No Cares
- Seagulls
- Shines Right Through Me
- Someday Soon
- Somedays
- Something Beautiful
- Something To It
- Straight To Hell
- Stumblin In
- Summer
- The Chemical Workers Song Process Man
- The Jolly Butcher
- The Mermaid
- The Night Pat Murphy Died
- The Old Black Rum
- Tickle Cove Pond
- Time Brings
- Walk On The Moon
- Wandering Ways
- Wave Over Wave
- What Are Ya At
- When Im Up
- When Im Up I Cant Get Down
- Widow In The Window
- Yankee Sailor
- Yarmouth Town
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YARMOUTH TOWN (Trad.arr. GBS)
From "Sea of No Cares" (2002)
Use a capo on the second fret.
Intro: G G G G G C G G G G G D G (Bo Diddley beat) X2
G Em
In Yarmouth town there lived a man
C C/B Am D
He had a little tavern by the strand
G Em C
And the landlord had a daughter fair
C G Am D
pretty little thing with golden hair
CHORUS:
G C
Won't you come down, won't you come down
G D G
Won't you come down to Yarmouth town
Repeat Intro
One night there came a sailor man
he asked the daughter for her hand
Well, I won't marry you she said
I have all I want without being wed
but if with me you'd like to linger
I'll tie some string all around my finger
As you walk by, pull on my string
and I'll come down and let you right in
CHORUS X2, Intro X1
Well, the very next day at closing time
the sailor man goes off to the strand
And as he walks by pulls on that string
She came down and let him right in
Well, he's never seen such a sight before
the string around her finger was all she wore
BREAK: G Em C Am D G Em G Em C Am D
CHORUS X2, Intro X1
So all you men who to Yarmouth go
If ya see those girls with their hair hung low
all you gotta do is pull their strings
and they'll come down and let you right in
CHORUS X4, Intro X1
From "Sea of No Cares" (2002)
Use a capo on the second fret.
Intro: G G G G G C G G G G G D G (Bo Diddley beat) X2
G Em
In Yarmouth town there lived a man
C C/B Am D
He had a little tavern by the strand
G Em C
And the landlord had a daughter fair
C G Am D
pretty little thing with golden hair
CHORUS:
G C
Won't you come down, won't you come down
G D G
Won't you come down to Yarmouth town
Repeat Intro
One night there came a sailor man
he asked the daughter for her hand
Well, I won't marry you she said
I have all I want without being wed
but if with me you'd like to linger
I'll tie some string all around my finger
As you walk by, pull on my string
and I'll come down and let you right in
CHORUS X2, Intro X1
Well, the very next day at closing time
the sailor man goes off to the strand
And as he walks by pulls on that string
She came down and let him right in
Well, he's never seen such a sight before
the string around her finger was all she wore
BREAK: G Em C Am D G Em G Em C Am D
CHORUS X2, Intro X1
So all you men who to Yarmouth go
If ya see those girls with their hair hung low
all you gotta do is pull their strings
and they'll come down and let you right in
CHORUS X4, Intro X1
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