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Banks Of Newfoundland

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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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"Banks Of Newfoundland"(Trad./Arr.GBS)
From "Fortune's Favour"(2008)

use a capo on the fifth fret

Am G Am
Ye bully boys of Liverpool, and I'll have you all beware
Am G Am
When you sail on them packet ships,no dungaree jackets wear
C Am C (G)
But have a big monkey jacket all ready to your hand
Am G Am
For there blow some cold nor'westers on the banks of Newfoundland

Chorus:

C Am C G
We'll scrape her and we'll scrub her,With holy stone and sand
Am G Am
For there blow some cold nor'westers on the banks of Newfoundland

We had Jack Lynch from Ballynahinch,Mike Murphy and some more
an' I tell you b’ys, well they suffered like hell
on their way to Baltimore
They pawned their gear in Liverpool
and they sailed as they did stand
But there blow some cold nor'westers
on the banks of Newfoundland

Chorus

Now the mate he did stand on the foc'sle head
and loudly he did roar
"Come rattle her in me lucky lads,
You're bound for America's shore.
Come wipe the blood off the dead man's face
And haul or you'll be damned!"
For there blow some cold nor'westers
on the banks of Newfoundland

Chorus...Am

So now we're off the hook me boys,
and the land is white with snow
and soon we'll see the pay table
and we'll spend the night below
And on the docks, come down in flocks,
why,those pretty girls will say
"It's snugger with me then out on the sea,
on the banks of Newfoundland!"

Chorus