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  • I'se the b'y

    Gordon Thomas posted on February 23, 2012 18:30

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       "I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad. "I's the B'y" is in the Newfoundland English dialect, and translates to standard English as "I'm the Boy" or "I'm the Guy". The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame decided to honour the song in 2005, officially accepting it as part of the Canadian Song Hall of Fame.

    Native Newfoundland folk songs have fared well in terms of continued popularity, due in part to their appearance in widely circulated publications such as Gerald S. Doyle's songsters. Doyle's company published five free and popular collections of Newfoundland songs, the first in 1927, as a means of promoting his patent medicine business. These songs included "I'se the B'y", "Tickle Cove Pond", "Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor", "Old Polina", "The Ryans and the Pittmans", and "Lukey's Boat".

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Comments

Claude Lacelle
# Claude Lacelle
Sunday, March 15, 2015 1:46 PM
Some of you may have noticed a new OnSong mark-up in the ChoPro/OnSong version of this song ...

& # 999999:And I’d [F]listen to [C]stories, of [F]how he once [Bb]lived
& # 999999:By the [F]glow of the [C]kerosene [Dm]light [Dm]
& # 999999:By the [F]glow of the [C]kerosene [F]light [F]↓

This Mark-up code (& # 999999:) sets the text colour of that line to gray. If your ChordPro file reader does not display this correctly I would suggest that you change the code "& # 999999:" to "" using [Find And Replace All].

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