BUG Media - Post Songs, Announcements, Events

  • Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor

    Sue Rogers posted on June 04, 2011 14:51

    Download the Lyrics and Chords

    A loose retelling of the biblical Jonah story with a Newfoundland fisherman as the hero, this folksong seems to have been adapted from the New York music-hall song "Every Inch a Sailor." ...It was published by Greenleaf and Mansfield in Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland (Cambridge, Mass 1933) and recorded by Alan Mills on Folk Songs of Newfoundland (1953, Folkways FW-6931)...

    taken from The Canadian Encyclopedia  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/quotjack-was-every-inch-a-sailorquot

    *****REFORMATTED March 2019 - SR******

    A video for this song:

    Posted in: Individual Songs, June 2011, Saunders Farm Songlist, Aug-2011 Folk Festival Songs, Ottawa Folk Festival 2011, Jan 2012 Songs for outings, February 2013, March 2013 Celtic influences, June 19, 2013 - O Canada!, January 2014 - Old and New BUG Event Songs, March 2014 - Kitchen Party, Celtic, East Coast, May 2014 - Cruise songs, March 2015, March 2016 Kitchen Party, January 2017 - BUG Event songs, BUG Hooley March 2017, January 2018 - BUG Event Songs, Jan 2019, March 2019, June 2019, March 2020 (0 Comments)

Related Articles

Mummers' Dance, The YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE VIDEO USING THE (F) SONGSHEET! I've also posted an easier (C) songsheet as an alternate - in a group friendly key. Tha...
Home For A Rest Given that Spirit of the West is winding down this year it seems like the time is now for this barroom classic. I figure we'll try it about 80%...
Wheat Kings For Gord Downie. YOU CAN PLAY ALONG IN THE SAME KEY AS THE VIDEO! “Wheats Kings” was released in 1992 on The Tragically Hip’s &...
Sweet City Woman YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE VIDEO! The Stampeders are a Canadian rock trio, consisting of Rich Dodson, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly. In 1971 they had...
Working Man   FOR JULY 1 2020, WE'LL BE PLAY THE RED ISLE UKULELE NETWORK VERSION! YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE FIRST VIDEO USING THE (F) SONGSHEET!...

Comments

There are currently no comments, be the first to post one.

17556