Jack Hinks

DESCRIPTION: Jack Hinks is described by the singer as a sailor with heroic qualities who is never short of money or fun and is successful with women. The singer finds himself and others wrecked on the rocks but Jack manages to save himself.
AUTHOR: Johnnie Quigley
EARLIEST DATE: 1933 (Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland)
KEYWORDS: sailor wreck rescue talltale
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 131, "Jack Hinks" (1 text)
Doyle-OldTimeSongsAndPoetryOfNewfoundland, "Jack Hinks" (1 text, 1 tune): p. 9 in the 2nd edition, p. 9 in the 3rd, p. 57 in the 4th, p. 28 in the 5th
Blondahl-NewfoundlandersSing, pp. 30-31, "John Hinks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mills-FavoriteSongsOfNewfoundland, pp. 14-15-, "Jack Hinks" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Johnny Burke (John White, Editor), Burke's Ballads , no printer listed, n.d. (PDF available on Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 63, "Jack Hinks" (1 text, credited to Quigley even though it's in a Burke songbook!)
Roud #4431
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "John Hinks" (on NFOBlondahl01,NFOBlondahl05)
SAME TUNE:
Why DIdn't Ya Say So Before ("One night reelin' gar sure I went to a play") (by Johnny Burke) (Johnny Burke (John White, Editor), _Burke's Ballads_, no printer listed, n.d. (PDF available on Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 58) (Johnny Burke (William J. Kirwin, editor), _John White's Collection of Johnny Burke Songs_, Harry Cuff Publications, St. John's, 1981, #96, p. 139)
NOTES [51 words]: The song has a typical formulaic introduction where the singer asks the Muses to come to the aid of the "poor bard" which shows the humble attitude of the singer found in many songs from Newfoundland. - SH
Or maybe an imitation of Homer?
For more on authot Quigley, see the notes to "Quigley and PIcco." - RBW
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