Huntingdon Shore

DESCRIPTION: The singer narrates preparations for a fishing journey to Huntingdon Shore. Conditions aboard and the itinerary are described. They meet girls on Round Island, Labrador but the singer insists that the place can't compare with the Huntingdon Shore.
AUTHOR: John(?) Doyle (A fisherman of St. John's and not the editor of the collection)
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Murphy, Songs Their Fathers Sung)
KEYWORDS: fishing work travel
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Doyle-OldTimeSongsAndPoetryOfNewfoundland , "Huntingdon Shore" (1 text, 1 tune): p. 23 in the 2nd edition
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 53, "The Huntingdown Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: James Murphy, _Songs Their Fathers Sung: For Fishermen: Old Time Ditties_, James Murphy Publishing, 1923 (PDF available from the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 3, "Huntingdon Shore" (1 text)
Roud #4415
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Huntingdon Shore" (on NFOBlondahl05)
NOTES [41 words]: Said to have been composed in the 1860s. - SH, RBW
"Young Goodridge," according to Doyle, was a renowned merchant of the time. - SH
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou: "The Huntingdown or Huntingdon shore was a fishing area on the Labrador coast." - BS
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