Gull Cove

DESCRIPTION: If you commit to fishing Gull Cove and "if the codfish fades away as it often done before, We could lose our year in Gull Cove, where the stormy winds do blow." The song describes a bad year and all the boats that lose the year.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou)
KEYWORDS: fishing hardtimes
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 48, "Gull Cove" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #26473
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "Gull Cove" (on NFABest01)
NOTES [21 words]: Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou: Gull Cove is near Branch, St Mary's Bay [at the southwest corner of the Avalon Peninsula]. - BS
Last updated in version 6.1
File: LeBe048

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