Mari-Mac - Great Big Sea - Lyrics ,
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- There's a neat little lass and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas try to get her on her back
But I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early
[Chorus:]
Mari Mac's mother's making Mari Mac marry me
My mother's making me marry Mari Mac
Well I'm going to marry Mari for when Mari's taking care of me
We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mari Mac
Now Mari and her mother are an awful lot together
In fact you hardly see the one without the other
And people often wonder if it's Mari or her mother
Or both of them together I am courting
[Chorus]
Well up among the heather in the hills of Bonifee
Well I had a bonnie lass sitting on me knee
A bumble bee stung me right above me knee
Up among the heather in the hills of Benifee
[Chorus]
Well I said "Wee bonnie lassie, where you going to spend the day?"
She said "Among the heather in the hills of Benifee"
Where all the boys and girls are making out so free
Up among the heather in the hills of Benifee
[Chorus]
The wedding's on Wednesday, everything's arranged
Soon her name will be changed to mine unless her mind be changed
And making the arrangements, I'm feeling quite deranged
Marriage is an awful undertaking
[Chorus]
Sure to be a grand affair, grander than a fair
Going to be a fork and plate for every man that's there
And I'll be a bugger if I don't get my share
If I don't we'll be very much mistaken
[Chorus]
There's a neat little lass and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas try to get up on her back
I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early
[Chorus]
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that moment when you realize this band was half your childhood and this was your favourite song.
HELL YES.
... they turned a tongue twister into a song...
awesome!
I had to start jogging to build the lung capacity so that i could sing the song at that ridiculous pace. Totally worth it.
That must have been one really difficult song to memorize considering the speed and its a really big tongue twister.
Honestly it’s not that hard once u learn it I was in year 3 in choir and we all learnt it really easily
Yeah it’s faster in the live version
Imagine how messy this song would be at a Karaoke bar! LMAO
valiant1968 The bar I worked at had a karaoke and someone did sing this and won, he got a free drink
Been there :P
There's no "imagining" anything if you're from Newfoundland or the Maritimes. ;)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and free drink, repeated.
Wait how do you "win" karaoke isn't the point to get blasted and scream like a banshee
I heard this song being performed at a pub in Cork, Ireland, but much slower. The guy also got us to sing the "my mother's making me..." part. Very fun song! It wasn't till later till someone else in the group said that Great Big Sea does this song.
Really?? Old comment but this is a Newfoundland song, cool to see our music being performed in Ireland
@@notsnho Mary Mack is a Scottish folk song that's been done by basically everyone who does Celtic folk music. It's not a Newfoundland song.
@@notsnho Scottish patter song, it even mentions bennachie (mispronounced as benafee) near Inverurie,Aberdeenshire Scotland
the words are much more similar when sung in a scottish accent where making is pronounced makkin and marry is pronounced merry so you get (makkin me merry mary mac )
@@campbellsoup93 band is from Newfoundland so I assumed, our music sounds like this as well so I didn’t know. My bad
@@cecircinn2908 band is from Newfoundland so I assumed, our music sounds like this as well so I didn’t know. My bad
Good lord this brings back memories of my best childhood frind dancing and jamming out to GBS when we were like 5♥
I'm Canadian. I accidentally left this song going for about an hour. Never gets annoying. Reckon it's the Canadian shield biologically representing itself in my blood. Goddamn, I love this great country, I love this band, and I want to be a pirate!
Sign me up
you know how you always sing along with songs....this one is just impossible! But it's so fun! One of my favs!
Such a romantic song...
Heard this in concert on the 19th; if anything, Sean's gotten even FASTER. THe speed was blistering!
I want so bad for Alestorm to cover this...
That would be glorious.
Too rights, I'd love that
Oh my gosh, why did you say that? Now my life is incomplete!!
I actually just heard this song for the first time yesterday at a program at my local community center. He had us sing it slowly at first, and it never got this fast.
This is actually just a response to the question, "Can you sing as fast as humanly possible... and then speed it up?"
after second verse I was not listening anymore just laughing at how fast it was
He slipped in the refrain from ‘up among the heather’ at 0:49, are we not gonna talk about this?
Only part of this song I can successfully sing without getting *too* tongue-tied is the chorus...until they speed it up near the end XD
Trying to sing along.
And now I can’t speak
The whole band reminds me of me mum. It's her favourite. Swear to god "play" and led Zeppelin was all I heard as a kid. Turns out me mum is cool
This reminds me of my mum. I'm drunk now, so I let her alone, but I love her to bits when I'm not ridiculous
I would pay some serious money to see that lol
True Canadians:)
Play this at 1.5 speed.
What have you done?????
NO NO NO, I CAN'T! Maybe... I'm not sure now, that was hard enough as it was!! ffs!
I'm.. going in. RIP me
I.. um... I've never said this in my life but you are now my nemesis in life, I will find you, once I stop hearing this, I think I need an asylum now
This is hilarious! Omg.
One of the best tongue twisters EVER
Ya got that right, My head still spinning. It was Nice that VenomousNewfie post the lyrics so I can read what was sung.
Thanks for the Great tune
Larry, Vancouver,B.C.
The guy's tongue is fast as lightning! Very good song!
Newfoundland hasnt been a country for years. Were a province of Canada now.
when they do it live its a lot faster
love this song
Them: No one raps faster then Eminem
Great Big Sea: Observe this
god i love being Nova Scotian and groeing up with these songs they are awesome
i love this and farewell to nova scotia
and people say rapping is hard if they heard this instant jaw drop
Rappers got nothin' on GBS!!! :)
My first school made us sing this all the time!
Ive Been listning to u guys since i was 3 and im 13 u guys still impress me but my friends call u silly and old but im sticking with u
xavier been 20 year old you still listening tho?
Newfies...fastest talkers in the world, God love'em!
After years I can finally keep I and sing the song word for word 😅 kareoke Sunday here I come
i can sing it at top speed now
:D
Fantastic!
Love love love this one!
I'm so drunk, you guys. Love you guys
I dare Eminem to do this.
You're an idiot.....
I don't hear 'My mother's making me marry Mari-Mac', I hear 'Mari's mother's making me marry Mari-Mac'. Am I crazy?
I guess that’s a misheard lyric accusation
Irishmen and women are very well known to talk fast, everything they say kind of sounds like a tongue-twister. I know this because my dad could do their accent, (since we are partially Irish) very well and he can sing this song perfectly.
Song is by Jake Mitchell of Peterhead.North East Scotland, sung in North East Scotland dialect "My fathers making me marry Mary Mack" sounds like "Ma faithers makkin me merry mary mack" so make sounds like Mack and marry sounds like mary
I think the original lyric is mother not father so would be "Ma mithers makkin me merry mary mack" every word starting with m
newfies are canadas main workforce, if it wasn't for dem then nothing would get done in alberta lol
JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS AN INTENSE HEADFUCK lol
it also annoys me that this is done as if it is a traditional Irish song rather than Scottish.
Shortbread Head it's Canadian.....
I'm " Newfie" and people says "I Talks Fast!" wow! lol
wow im suprise people can sing like that its so fast and such a mouth full
I wish i could too
Holy Nuts.
I'm learning this on ukulele
I lol'd when he gibbered and the dots came. Totally expected lyrics :P
i seen these guy's in concert 4 time's in ST. John's absolutely wicked b y's
Fer all you mainlanders put the speed on .75 :P
BoatingMyFloat turn it up to 1.25
I dare someone to sing this song
I tell ya, other then rocky road to Dublin, this is one of the hardest songs to sing. I can actually sing this one, but rocky road, not a chance lol. My jaw always aches after singing this lol, can barely keep up. Loved this song since I was a wee little lad, now im 25, and still loving it :)
Next time my sister's in town I'll video tape it XD
alistercade Rocky Road to Dublin is easy as hell for me :D Such a simple and easy song to sing :3
A Fox Named Mangle hah! Wow, your a talented one in my book then. I can never sing it correctly without fudging up the words. Beautiful song none the less though :D.
alistercade kinda comes with bein Irish as well :P
my girlffiend and i did a newfie stomp at companys xmas party in ont.to this song several greek coworkers crouched slapping their hands on the floor urgeing us on what a sweat bought the party to life.
this is not a song i will EVER attempt to sing while drunk...
💕
Mary Mack!
I want to dance in a country club to this song XD
+Anika Green I once danced to it at a formal in a faculty club!
if you really want to hear newfies sing fast give a listen to RATTLING BOG the irish descendents.
yeknows b'ys
Wiliam Cobb then put rattlin bog on 2X speed
Wiliam Cobb best shanty to sing along to after a few pints of beer!
This on 2× speed oh god
+Tristan “TheGoldenTman” Miller
I can't even read on normal
+Tristan “TheGoldenTman” Miller
OMG that was amazing!
Omg! Crazy!
i can just about sing along to this haha only 1 part to master now *hits replay 20 more times* :D
2021 here for the sea shanties
i wish there was a Gaberlunzie one of this
my kid told me she and her mom got invited to go to the ocean or something tonight turns out she is going the Great Big Sea show :) such a sweetie pie
Try dropping the annunciation on the conjunction to get "Well all be feelin'..." and you'll do just fine. That's how we do it; cut the particulars and you'll make 'em listen faster. Because fuck apostrophes.
This song is like a nirvana song. You cant tell what hes saying half the time.
One does not simply sing along to the chorus of this song while at a bar
I am seeing them next month in a town near by
Nope, there's no speed that I can use to get it up to Carbon Leaf's speed and still keep it intelligible....This sounds very much like a traditional tune, rather than Carbon Leaf's which has a much more modern spin....I like both versions, though.....
I do this song at school lol
my teachers learnt us this song when i was in primary
do i care?
no.
Albeit and outdated one, learnt is a real word, and you used it correctly. don't listen to loud people, they're often wrong.
Roger that, Rubber ducky, example 1, 2 weeks before my posting of this
learn
lərn/Submit
verb
past tense: LEARNT; past participle: learnt
1.
gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
Tavi Gevinson
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
Aye.
A rapper who Eminem was too scared to diss
They did it live when I saw them a month or so ago, first try, so I'm guessing not many times. They're probably used to it now
lol, song just keeps on getting faster and faster
How many takes did this take?
Newfoundland*
1 badass version
After this song,New Foundland is my favourite country :D
1 it’s Newfoundland 2 its not a country and 3 it’s a province in canada
@@shinynewfie9240 There are many unrecognized countries in this world....
@@Komotau4691 ahh I see what ur doing
@bluegirlz333666 It's actually a Scottish one isn't it??
2 people didn't get up early enough to get her on her back.
Lol I believe it
You tinks this is fast listen to ratlin bog
Question...did this version or the one by Carbon Leaf come out first?
And people think rappers are impressive.
I think my tongue is swollen.
Wonder how many times they had to this to get it right
I will sing this song
Honestly if that is impresses you you should check out their rendition of End Of the World (as we know it) these boys are FAST.
Sing along to this? Impossibru!
This is a true irish song :)
Bahahaha...
Is this a Scottish song?
Newfoundland song, Newfoundland Canada
Makes a good drinking game.
How i sing this, da do da da duh da di do e da
i can rofl
its a Newfoundlander thing :P
I want to know what this would be like if Dave King sang it
Am I the only one who finds the chorus easier to sing than the verses?