{"id":1704,"date":"2015-02-03T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:24:01","slug":"bound-down-for-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2015\/02\/03\/bound-down-for-newfoundland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound Down to Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">80.05.1<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"80.05.1\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDIvODAuMDUuMS5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><strong>Davy Arthur &amp; Arthur \u00a0Stewart \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[Banks of Newfoundland] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SA1980.05.1 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fine song led off a lively evening of singing\u00a0at the home of David and Iris Anderson on January 10 1980. The evening\u00a0had been suggested by younger singers in the island wishing to introduce me to their songs so as to complement those which\u00a0I had recorded from the older generation of singers.<\/p>\n<p>This song\u00a0was\u00a0included\u00a0on\u00a0the record\u00a0<em>The Corries: Bonnet, Belt and Sword <\/em>(Fontana STL5401, 1967) with the title <em>Banks of Newfoundland. \u00a0<\/em>Many present<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0that evening admitted to being very fond of recordings by <em>The Corries.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The history of our\u00a0ballad is rather confused because several different ballads \u00a0telling of the sad trials of \u00a0voyages to Newfoundland share similar names (see for example Roy Palmer&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Oxford Book of Sea Songs,<\/em> where two older songs\u00a0are to be found bearing the title <em>The Banks\u00a0of Newfoundland<\/em>). \u00a0This\u00a0version seems to be a variant of a late 19th century native American ballad authored by Captain Caleb White, <em>Bound Down To Newfoundland<\/em>. (Roud no. 647)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>On St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, the seventeenth, from New York we set sail<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Kind fortune did favour us wi&#8217; a sweet and a pleasant gale<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We bore away from Amer-i-cay, the wind bein&#8217; off the land<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And wi&#8217; courage brave we ploughed the wave bound down for Newfoundland.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Our Captain&#8217;s name was Nelson just twenty years of age,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>As true and brave a sailor lad as ever ploughed the wave<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Eveline our brig was called belonging to MacLean<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And wi&#8217; courage brave we ploughed the wave bound down for Newfoundland.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>When three days out to our surprise our Captain he fell sick<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And shortly was not ab&#8211;i-le to take his turn on deck.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The fever raged which made us think that death was near at hand,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>So we bore away from Halifax bound down for Newfoundland.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>At three o&#8217;clock we sighted a light that we were glad to see;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The small-pox had bin&#8217; rag-i-n&#8217;, that&#8217;s what it proved to be;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>At four o&#8217;clock in the afternoon, as sure as God&#8217;s command,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>He passed away in Arichak [harrowed shock?] bound down for Newfoundland\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>All that night long we did lament for our departed friend<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And we were prayin&#8217; unto God for what had been his end<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We prayed that God would guide us and keep us by his hand<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And send us fair wind while at sea bound down for Newfoundland.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bound down for Newfoundland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2015\/02\/03\/bound-down-for-newfoundland\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davy-arthur-and-netta","category-a-h","category-arthur-stewart"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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