Banks of Newfoundland (I), The [Laws K25]

DESCRIPTION: The singer offers a warning to listeners: Don't sail the northern seas without stout clothes! (He and his friends had pawned their jackets in Liverpool.) The singer's Irish fiancee tears up her petticoat to make him mittens. At last they reach New York
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: sailor clothes storm
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South),Scotland(Bord)) US(MA,NE,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES (21 citations):
Laws K25, "The Banks of Newfoundland"
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 123-125, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord-SongsOfAmericanSailormen, pp. 173-174, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 412-416, "The Banks o' Newf'n'land" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbrEd, pp. 315-316]
Kinsey-SongsOfTheSea, pp.123-124, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston-FolkSongsOfCanada, pp. 36-37, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 116, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 854-855, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt/Fowke-SeaSongsBalladFromNineteenthCenturyNovaScotia, p. 18, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text)
Creighton-SongsAndBalladsFromNovaScotia 103, "Banks of Newfoundland (1)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 161, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 220-221, "The Banks of Newfoundland, II" (1 text plus an excerpt)
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, p. 225, "The Banks of Newfoundland 2" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner-TraditionalAmericanFolkSongsFromAnneAndFrankWarnerColl 141, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen, pp. 141, 156, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text)
VaughanWilliams/Lloyd-PenguinBookOfEnglishFolkSongs, pp. 15-16, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall, p. 39, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 119, "The Banks of Newfoundland (I)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-TheBalladOfAmerica, pp. 145-147, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 31, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 407, NWFNDLND* NWFNDLN3
Roud #1812
RECORDINGS:
Willie Scott, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (on Voice02)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Star of the County Down" (tune) and references there
cf. "The American Aginora" (plot)
cf. "You Pretty Girls of Michigan" (form)
NOTES [23 words]: Peacock believes this is "a localized version of" Van Dieman's Land (I) [Laws L18]. I think that's grossly overstating the similarity. - BS
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