Not the good ones, Canadians write songs about American ships that went down as well. " Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald ". Buy a other one of our best, Gordon Lightfoots. Check it out. 🍻🇨🇦😎
Died far too young. Perished in a cabin fire aboard an Air Canada flight that made an emergency landing in Cincinnati. He apparently returned to the cabin to pull out other passengers but succumbed to the smoke inside the cabin. His lasting legacy are his songs. Requiescet in pace.
You want to see 100% of bar patrons immediately stop and sing along a Capella to a song, play this in a Nova Scotia bar. It’s unreal to have everyone in the place singing without any music.
First time I ever heard it was during Fleet Week, after last call. Six Canadians, two Brits an Aussie and a Frechman were singing it. Not a dry eye among them. Of course that might have had something to do with the $2200 tab they ran up...
@@gooel I learned an alternate version of "Heart of Oak" at Sea Cadet camp in my teens and the C.O. of my Corps was not happy to hear me singing it. I was given the choice to either join the marching band or find another branch (ie: Army or Air Cadets) to join. So I learned how to play the glockenspiel LMAO.
Lyrics: Oh, the year was 1778 How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now A letter of marque came from the King To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers Oh Elcid Barrett, cried the town How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now For twenty brave men all fishermen who Would make for him the Antelope's crew God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers On the King's birthday we put to sea How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now We were ninety-one days to Montego Bay Pumping like madmen all the way God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers On the ninety-sixth day we sailed again How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight With our cracked four-pounders we made to fight God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers How the Yankee lay low down with gold How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now She was broad and fat and loose in stays But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers Then at length we stood two cables away How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers The Antelope shook and pitched on her side How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs And the main truck carried off both me legs God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers So here I lay in my twenty-third year How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now It's been six years since we sailed away And I just made Halifax yesterday God damn them all I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers
Rogers would have been proud to know that the crew of the Northern Harrier sang this shanty to pass the time as we did the Trans-Superior International Yacht Race, August 2019. The best part? We were a crew put together online, Canadian-American. We came to Sault Ste. Marie, MI from as far as Thunder Bay, ON and Baltimore, MD. On the third day, alone on deck, I started to sing this song and a lad from Duluth, MN actually knew the lyrics, too, and joined in.
@@Historyguy-xu5ht Lol! I landed in Duluth in early August and could tell just by looking around that the place was normally Arctic! All the photos and stories at the museum there? It is as all about winter and a shipping town encased in merciless ice for 45 weeks a year! I even shiver writing this! 🤣
I first heard this song when we ported at Halifax, Nova Scotia. We were on a pub crawl,; a bunch of officers off our US submarine, with a bunch of British and Canadian navy guys. it was over Easter weekend, and a bunch of us sailors were away from home. I don't think I ever enjoyed myself more on liberty in a foreign port as I did then. I don't know what it is but Canadian folks just seem so good to be with and do things with. edit: BTW Stan Rogers died a hero. He was trying to save people from a plane tragedy, but died doing so. He truly was a hero.
A lot of Nova Scotians like my father served in the RCN, which by the end of WW2 and for decades after was very respectable in size (Canada even had carriers) He told me it was common for the USN, RN and RCN to sail together, and by the sounds of things, he was just as fond of his shore leave in Florida and in the U.K.! He mentioned they even tried to behave themselves while there, which is quite complimentary as I've been told there are bars in Bermuda that to this day have signs that say "No Dogs or Canadian Navy Allowed!". What most Canadians and Americans aren't aware of, is that the Canadian Navy contributed significantly to efforts during the Cuban Missile Crisis and apparently worked as one with the USN! I heard about this through my father and many of his friends who also served on various ships and aircraft, but for whatever reason, their involvement has been kept very quiet on both sides until recently. Currently, Canadians are pizzed at what Liberals have done to our military, hope to see more future cooperation as we fix our mistakes! www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/october/cuban-crisis-northern-vantage
“Before most likely succumbing to smoke inhalation, he used his last moments to guide other passengers to safety with his booming voice. I’ve heard more than one Canuck proudly declare that for all Rogers’ odes to Canada, he was never more Canadian than in his final words: ‘Let me help you.' “. Amber Frost, passenger, AC 797, after Stan Rogers helped her off the plane, before succumbing to smoke inhalation.
I was overjoyed to be riding my bicycle home from work tonight (Sep 18th, 2015) to hear Stan Roger's "Barrett's Privteers" being sung by a group of young guys in their 20's emanating from "Grossman's Tavern" in Toronrto. I stopped on my bike at the open window to join them for a refrain, my heart refreshed to hear a new generation embracing the songs of a great Canadian music hero, so easily forgotten by those who simply follow the "top 40" of today's radio and TV.
+Jeremy Nasmith I'm an American of Irish descent who lived in New Brunswick as a small child and was taught this song by my dad (Boston Irish)- he said "it's part of the tradition even though the Americans are the bad guys"
I've sung this song in many public places, never sobre, and was always joined by volunteers to sing the chorus. You have to be in good shape to sing this song. I was a marathoner, and would still struggle to get through this without running out of breath.
Last summer, my wife and I were at the Old Triangle in Halifax and heard McGinty sing 'Barrett's Privateers' - Canada's 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'Northwest Passage' - Canada's other national anthem. We're from Cut & Shoot, Texas and like everyone else in the audience, we knew all the words to both songs. Stan Rogers is a Canadian National Treasure. He needs to be treasured accordingly.
That's awesome! But the Old Triangle is one of the worst Irish pubs here in Halifax. I live here and I was born here, and there are so many better pubs here. I recommend the Celtic Corner in Dartmouth. Ten times better than most pubs in Halifax. I recommend skipping out on the Old Triangle and getting the real Nova Scotia experience at the Celtic Corner, I recommend the steak and Guinness pie.
They played this song on Parliament Hill in Ottawa... Basically, with the whole "God damn them all!" line as a main bit of the chorus, playing in public, by the government, it made me proud to be Canadian.
that is hilarious and wonderful! thanks for sharing Jenny :) what great family memories you have connected to this song! the sea is in my blood but im landlocked now. my family are landlubbers and they not into singing let alone hangin out with me lol. count your blessings Jenny and keep your family close in the bosom of your safe harbor. and keep on singing! :) many blessings, -Aimee
It's crazy just how young Stan really was. With that voice of his, he sounds like he was over 40... but nope, just barely older than 30. It's interesting to ponder what could've happened if he wasn't taken from us. He surely would have had a really lengthy career. He'd probably still be going strong today, too.
Rogers died alongside 22 other passengers most likely of smoke inhalation on June 2, 1983, while traveling on Air Canada Flight 797 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) after performing at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
The airliner was flying from Dallas, Texas to Toronto and Montreal when a fire of unknown ignition source within the vanity or toilet shroud of the aft washroom forced it to make an emergency landing at the Greater Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky. There were initially no visible flames, and after attempts extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, smoke filled the cabin. Upon landing, the plane's doors were opened, allowing the five crew and eighteen of the passengers to escape, but approximately 60 to 90 seconds into the evacuation the oxygen rushing in from outside caused a flash fire. Rogers was one of the passengers still on the plane at the time of the fire. His ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Every time I am fortunate enough to get together and splash a little booze with my old high school buddies, it's only a matter of time before someone goes "ohhhhh the year was 1778". Makes no difference who starts it, every single one of us will immediately drop what we're doing and belt out "HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!" and then the entire song happens. I don't really remember how or why that tradition started but I sure do like how it's going
One of the most tragic losses in music history. Stan Rogers should be alive now with an extra 38 years of material and sitting on a Halifax pier looking on an amazing career.
I was about 4 when I first heard this song. I remember everyone gathered in our kitchen, feet stomping, drinks flowing and me sitting on my dad's knee waiting to sing "God damn them all"..the only time I had permission to swear. 40 years later and I'm still listening to Stan.🍁
Your historical past? Not quite! Nova Scotia (which included New Brunswick at the time) was damn near the 14th stripe on the US flag! The majority of the people supported patriotism but were severely outnumbered by the massive British military presence. You would know better than most how Halifax is a fond sibling to Boston, well it was 250 years ago too! When the Brits occupied Boston, the supplies bound for them were being burnt in Halifax! Most of the "English" population in NS was originally from the New England colonies. The rest were Irish, Scottish, Acadian and Native who weren't fond of the Brits one bit either!. It was only after the rebel forces started attacking and looting the civilian population that sentiments changed.
Saw him at the Folk Fest in Kerville Texas in 1983. We headed home with such a high but then heard he'd died on the way home due to a fire on his plane. Incredibly heartbreaking.
My dad will randomly sing this to the road trips when I was a child. Even though we didn't know what he was saying we will follow with the chorus every time. He was a Canadian and he married my mother here in Uruguay
He died in a plane crash. IIRC, he survived initially, but went back in the plane to save people when said plane exploded, killing him and everyone else in there at the time.
todd canton my family survived and died in the Titanic, so it seems I’m still unsinkable. Mollie lived about thirty miles drum us in KCMO. Great Grandma Mollie Brown is about 10 years older or younger than the one in Hannibal and I think I have a grandma and her sister merged as the same woman. US Grant brought back a lot of husbands! I just have no business on the WRONG side of the Arch of St. Louis! Good grief, younger republics in this country are like different countries compared to the states
As an Maritimer.. and lover of pubs and beer.. I just might of heard this song once or twice.. Mug hits the table in time to the music. What a loss to the world. R.I.P. Stan
I remember sitting at the top of the stairs in my first house late at night, as a child, listening to this song as my parents played it downstairs. Great memories.
Blackwells made sure men came back more whole than before, but the gaslighting! smdh Since Maryland was by the ocean, we learned shanty's but Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the 70s hit. I do remember when Stan passed, he just wasn't familiar on DC radio stations. This was Jimmy Carter's mission, where the country lost it's disco duck mind. The United States OF the Americas is in default of its Charter. I love this song. We were to have gone back to UK a LONG time ago.
It's amazing where you can find his fans; I dropped in at my college's gaming club and within minutes was surrounded by gamers belting out this song from memory. I was the only one in the room who was born before he died.
Goddammit Stan Rogers' story breaks my heart, and I can't hear his voice without thinking of how horrible his death was. His voice will forever haunt me.
This song brings back so many memories. My dad was big into folk music and I would hear this song blasting from the basement while he worked on his model trains. I don't think I've heard it in over 20 years, but as soon as the chorus started it all came back to me. I wish he was still around to share this video with. I'm sure it would have made him smile. Thank you for posting it.
I remember going to see Stan with my mom , my sister, and some other fans at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. What a great concert and Stan's stage presence alone was almost too big for the place, let alone the rest of his band. He was a special man.
does my nova scotia heart good to hear this. few things are better than to have a few cold ones and have your best friend belt this out for a son back home from out west. thrown in a feed of lobsters and it doesnt get any better anywhere.
My family, the Barnhills, came from Ireland to Nova Scotia pre Nova-Scotia - in 1700! (We've lost the accent.) Many still live in Debert. I visited with my mother, and had that feed of lobsters a few times. No, nothing gets better than that! (But would love to belt this out with friends there. How lovely!)
The soul in the last verse, not just in the lyrics with the heartbreaking realization this poor kid is not only just 23 and uselessly crippled but that he's only just gotten home but the way Stan sings it is emotionally astounding
Was out with some mates a few weeks when I suddenly broke out into singing this. To my surprise they joined in with me. Nothing better than a good round of barret's privateers with ya mates out of the blue :D
English is not my first language and while doing some chores in dry January is listened to some Shantys when this song came up in my playlist I would always hear "I wish I wasn't sober now" and I related to that so much :D Furthermore it was difficult but interesting to find this song with only the wrong chorus in mind. Interestingly enough, this song still popped up under the first results when I googled it...
Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! A letter of marque came from the king, To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen, God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! For twenty brave men all fishermen who would make for him the Antelope's crew God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. On the King's birthday we put to sea, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! We were 91 days to Montego Bay Pumping like madmen all the way God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. On the 96th day we sailed again, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight With our cracked four pounders we made to fight God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. The Yankee lay low down with gold, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! She was broad and fat and loose in the stays But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. Then at length we stood two cables away, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! Our cracked four pounders made an awful din But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. The Antelope shook and pitched on her side, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs And the Maintruck carried off both me legs God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. So here I lay in my 23rd year, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! It's been 6 years since we sailed away And I just made Halifax yesterday God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns-shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers.
I have always loved the sound of Stan Rogers! His music and his voice...his songs rooted in history. I recently spoke to some teenagers and they, sadly, had no idea who he was. So I promptly put on Barrett's Privateers. I mean how can you not tap your foot to that! Exposing young people to such an incredible Canadian performer like Stan Rogers and his band is our responsibility as Canadians... keeping our history alive, and musicians who may not be with us anymore.
A song of sorrow and a song of the sea. A true inspiration. I'm to set sail from Pensacola to Havana on a 37' cutter at the end of this month. I listen to music like this as I prepare myself, physically and mentally. Cheers for the brilliant shanty. Wish me luck.
Popcorn Horse I still do, thank the good Lord. And thank you for asking. The trip was a success as we came in (safely) 3rd in a filed of 12. Take care. ☺️
Nicholas Patton The voyage was a success. Another great surprise was August of last year crewing J/37 sloop on the Trans-Superior. After surviving a squall that included lightning, hail, 30kt winds and 6ft seas, we spend the 2nd half of the day in pure (but not unwelcome) boredom... I started to sing this song and found a crew member who knew the lyrics! I guess love of sea shanties - even recent ones - isn’t that obscure. Cheer. ☺️
belted this song out with two of my mates in an old sailor's bar, now inhabited generally by college students. The bartender was so pleased he brought us another pitcher of beer for free.
whoa. if u've ever been part of a group singing harmony, you know how incredible that feels. can't help but sing along before it's halfway over even if you've never heard it before.
Grew up just a stones throw from Canada and Stan’s music was one of the main reasons I learned to play guitar and sing. Each of his songs conjures up a story that we can all see so clearly. I was never able to see him live before he passed, I was able to see his brother. Both great men and great musicians. I miss music like this and the world needs more of it. Substance over flash.
He has been gone over 20 years, and we still miss him. Thanks for posting this -- some friends and myself got thrown out of the James Joyce Pub in Baltimore a couple of years ago for singing this song "too loud" during a break by Ronan Kavanagh. We were honored!
I'm a CFA but brought my young family to Nova Scotia 17 years ago. I didn't realize how much I had become Nova Scotian until I heard Barrett's Privateers belted out in a pub in St. Johns. I got real misty
I just found this song randomly, I gotta say I really need to find so more music like this cause I know nothing about this song but I know I like it. If any one has any recommendations please lets hear em.
Stuart JSA Don't know a lot of his songs but my favourite Stan Rogers song so far is "Northwest Passage". First heard this song in an episode of Due South.
+Will Scheibler "Northwest Passage" is also known as Canada's second national anthem. The depth of Stan Roger's music, and lasting impact on the music scene, is damn near immeasurable. A true Giant!
My friends and I loved this song as young teenagers in Philly (late 70s or very early 80s). I transcribed the voices as well as I could so we could sing it. I was sorry I never got to see him perform live.
As a recent immigrant to Canada I was taught this song by other community radio junkies and assorted students in the pub at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Perhaps my favorite anti-war song of all time after years in the peace movement.
On a trip to Canada we visited the Algonquin national park and went on a canoe trip. It was all day so by the end of the day or the return journey we were getting tired. To keep us going our guide started singing this song! He got us all singing along and we forgot our tired arms and paddled like a pioneer. Brilliant
Can't help it when I listen to this, I start to pound the table with the beat and sing along. With an extra beat on the shed-no-tears and a missing one in the Now-I'm-a. And always that uplift on the now in wish-I-was-in-Sherbrook-now!
I work in a bureaucratic office environment. Somebody got sent this link in an email today and clicked on it. Three lines in and there were a dozen people singing it in the surrounding cubes. We wrapped up after two verses - at which point our director came running out of his office and said, "I was on the phone, did I miss 'Barrett's Privateers'?" It was like being back at the Lower Deck in Halifax.
It's probably 40 years ago....waiting at the gates of the Philadelphia Folk Festival for the evening concert...when...someone...started singing this to pass the time. By the second chorus everyone in line was singing.
I've loved this song for almost 20 years. The fact they lose in the end makes it the legendary song that it is! You learn more from your losses in life than your wins.
He died so incredibly young for such an amazing talent. Far too you. I never realised he was diabetic, or at least had a life long illness, which makes his sacrifice for more poignant.
Did this song for a presentation to a Girl Scout Troop many years ago in old Sea Dog persona...changed it slightly to "God Take Them All." Gods' Bless Stan and the joy he gave us.
I first heard this song performed at a renaissance fair of all places (by an act called the Rambling Sailors), and I loved it. It's an awesome song. I've always been drawn to songs that tell a story. All that Bieber and Gaga crap everyone my age listens to... Can't stand it. I listen to real music, thank you. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
Awesome production. I'm so grateful to be able to find Stan in here. My sister was with him in Texas with some of her friends.....all from Dundas. He stayed a day extra and ended up on the doomed flight and my sister flew the same flight number the next day. I knew four people on Stan's flight. only one of them survived.. It was a dark day and still is.
The tv show Due South is where I found this song in the mid 90s. And I was shocked to find out that he died at the airport that is 10 minutes from my house. I rermember seeing the story of the fire on the news when I was 13, but it was years befvore I realized what a treasure the world lost that day.
I love it when I can listen to a song and learn something historically accurate, if not literally true. I am a combat veteran and it feels great to sing along with this (even though I was US Army).
+Larry Reid : the feeling of camaraderie when struggling your way through this whole harangue is immense, and self-cancelling. Once upon a time; a few of my friends and I would spontaneously burst into this shanty at various venues. Needless to say, we got a lot of free drinks. However, I don't think we ever got past three renditions in three different bars before we called it a night.It's a wonderfully exhausting exercise. ~ S ~
@@notablegoat But Sherbrooke Nova Scotia was founded in 1805 and was known as Sherbrooke, and the one in Quebec was founded in 1763 but was not known as Sherbrooke yet, so you're technically right about the one in Quebec depending on your definition of founded.
I bet there are even Russians who sing along with The Boss and where he was born! This Canadian always sings along with Lee Greenwood - God Bless The USA!
I had a room-mate who played base in a bar band that included a Rankin cousin. They often got gigs in a bar in Penhorn Mall, but hated playing there. It was easy to shift the lyrics to "God-damn the mall". I don't think that anyone noticed, since they kept getting called back.
One of Stan Roger's friends made a parody of the song to rib at Stan, who was often hot tempered but then eventually came around to how funny the song was. It was called Garnet's Homemade Beer, Garnet being Stan Rogers' brother.
I was just watching a documentary about 1983 plane that had to make emergency landing because of the fire and Stan Rogers was on it, he was one of 23 people who didn't get out before the plane burst into flames. His friend was talking about him, what a wonderful person he was. RIP
In 2017, during Operation Inherent Resolve, I was deployed on the USS GHW BUSH in the med/gulf. Every day before flight schedule we would sing along to this song (granted it was the Real McKenzies version). Loading bombs and fuel on our jets to drop on ISIS in the early morning with your shop singing this in unison really felt like something pulled out of Master and Commander or Pirates of the Caribbean. Some of my fondest memories.
Heard this for the first time at an Ontario folk festival in the late 70's. Loved it but didn't know who wrote it and never heard it again until the mid 80's at a bar in New Glasgow Nova Scotia. Fast forward to the 90's I received a package in the mail from Nova Scotia Tourism which included a CD with east coast music. Lo & behold, it was the first track. Been a Stan Rogers fan since. BTW. How can you tell a Newfoundlander in heaven? He's the one who wants to go home.
187 dislikes? God damn them all!
Whoop!
Land lubbers.
@@Gr0nt_Skegg Aye. And legless, too.
😂👌
I want to know who these people are and what exactly is wrong with them. Up to 446 that we need to scupper right out of Canada.
Do any Canadian folk-songs about ships ever end with the ship still on top of the water?
Not the good ones,
Canadians write songs about American ships that went down as well.
" Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald ". Buy a other one of our best, Gordon Lightfoots.
Check it out.
🍻🇨🇦😎
The mary-Ellen Carter, also by Stan Rogers, the that one starts with the ship sunk, so I dunno
@@davispeterson1876 But she's coming back UP, dammit.
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Stan Rogers wrote songs that generations won't believe were written so recently.
Damn, 7 years ago...? Time flies.
@@Noisemaker50 Stan Rogers wanted a shanty that he could sing lead on...so he wrote one
@@Noisemaker50 "the year was 1778"
@@nugget2366 About 200 years before his time.
yep it got me until i looked it up...
Died far too young. Perished in a cabin fire aboard an Air Canada flight that made an emergency landing in Cincinnati. He apparently returned to the cabin to pull out other passengers but succumbed to the smoke inside the cabin. His lasting legacy are his songs.
Requiescet in pace.
There is no proof Stan Rogers ever left the plane, sadly.
Memory Eternal. ☦ May Christ grant him eternal blissful rest
Pretty sure he died in plane crash in Iowa, engine blew up, cutting hydraulics, crash landed, some survivors.
@We live in a society Amen brother
@@jamesgrannes1782 No. Fire in the toilet that flashed over on emergency landing at Cincinatti/North Kentucky. Absurd way to go.
My Dad tricked me into going to the Stan Rogers festival when I was 14 he told me rappers would be there. Now im glad he did!
I mean I get it but I‘d still be pissed
based dad
I mean, this guy is spittin' some rhymes, amiright?
Rap. Rythm and poetry. This sorta counts right?
Rappers from 1778
You want to see 100% of bar patrons immediately stop and sing along a Capella to a song, play this in a Nova Scotia bar.
It’s unreal to have everyone in the place singing without any music.
Play this in any bar anywhere and it will be great.
Can confirm from my Uni days!
Absolutely the best memories of my youth !
The Lower Deck !!
Absolutely....beating beer bottles off the table....
My sincere apologies to any residents of London, ON that were woken by a drunken mob singing this at 3AM in the late 80s.
No apologies required.
We've been carrying it on buddy. Surprising number of people still know the song enough to join in.
a public drunk songfest and i missed it?????
No apologies required.
@@SamehKhan Alestorm did a cover a while ago. No where near as good, but at least it hopefully makes 'em aware.
RIP Mr Rogers. I hope you rest well knowing that this song is the unofficial anthem of the Royal Canadian Navy.
This, and Farewell To Nova Scotia, in a bar in Halifax. Don't get much better.
Go Navy.
It’s the march past of the RCN if memory serves
First time I ever heard it was during Fleet Week, after last call. Six Canadians, two Brits an Aussie and a Frechman were singing it. Not a dry eye among them.
Of course that might have had something to do with the $2200 tab they ran up...
@@frankishe23 The official march of the RCN is "Heart of Oak". You won't hear Barrett's Privateers on any parade square - at least during daylight :)
@@gooel I learned an alternate version of "Heart of Oak" at Sea Cadet camp in my teens and the C.O. of my Corps was not happy to hear me singing it. I was given the choice to either join the marching band or find another branch (ie: Army or Air Cadets) to join. So I learned how to play the glockenspiel LMAO.
Lyrics:
Oh, the year was 1778
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
A letter of marque came from the King
To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
Oh Elcid Barrett, cried the town
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
For twenty brave men all fishermen who
Would make for him the Antelope's crew
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags
And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
On the King's birthday we put to sea
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
We were ninety-one days to Montego Bay
Pumping like madmen all the way
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
On the ninety-sixth day we sailed again
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
With our cracked four-pounders we made to fight
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
How the Yankee lay low down with gold
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
She was broad and fat and loose in stays
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
Then at length we stood two cables away
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
The Antelope shook and pitched on her side
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
And the main truck carried off both me legs
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
So here I lay in my twenty-third year
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
It's been six years since we sailed away
And I just made Halifax yesterday
God damn them all
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
Thank's lad..
Thank you for posting these lyrics!
Moral of the story: if someone tells you that you can get American gold without firing a gun, don't believe them!
Good man
@@fransbuijs808 And shedding no tears.
Rogers would have been proud to know that the crew of the Northern Harrier sang this shanty to pass the time as we did the Trans-Superior International Yacht Race, August 2019. The best part? We were a crew put together online, Canadian-American. We came to Sault Ste. Marie, MI from as far as Thunder Bay, ON and Baltimore, MD. On the third day, alone on deck, I started to sing this song and a lad from Duluth, MN actually knew the lyrics, too, and joined in.
Duluth is basically Canada of Minnesota
@@Historyguy-xu5ht And Minnesota the Canada of the states
@@Historyguy-xu5ht Lol! I landed in Duluth in early August and could tell just by looking around that the place was normally Arctic! All the photos and stories at the museum there? It is as all about winter and a shipping town encased in merciless ice for 45 weeks a year! I even shiver writing this! 🤣
@@Yuvraj. To heck with it all! 🤣 My sloop got caught in a squall on Superior that included hail and lightning...in bloody AUGUST!
@@Historyguy-xu5ht Oh, but the beer there was excellent! 👌 🍺 😋
I first heard this song when we ported at Halifax, Nova Scotia. We were on a pub crawl,; a bunch of officers off our US submarine, with a bunch of British and Canadian navy guys. it was over Easter weekend, and a bunch of us sailors were away from home. I don't think I ever enjoyed myself more on liberty in a foreign port as I did then. I don't know what it is but Canadian folks just seem so good to be with and do things with. edit: BTW Stan Rogers died a hero. He was trying to save people from a plane tragedy, but died doing so. He truly was a hero.
Hey brother. SubPac sailor here. My mother is from Nova Scotia. Wish I could have visited there in my uniform.... I'd prolly still be hungover.
A lot of Nova Scotians like my father served in the RCN, which by the end of WW2 and for decades after was very respectable in size (Canada even had carriers) He told me it was common for the USN, RN and RCN to sail together, and by the sounds of things, he was just as fond of his shore leave in Florida and in the U.K.! He mentioned they even tried to behave themselves while there, which is quite complimentary as I've been told there are bars in Bermuda that to this day have signs that say "No Dogs or Canadian Navy Allowed!". What most Canadians and Americans aren't aware of, is that the Canadian Navy contributed significantly to efforts during the Cuban Missile Crisis and apparently worked as one with the USN! I heard about this through my father and many of his friends who also served on various ships and aircraft, but for whatever reason, their involvement has been kept very quiet on both sides until recently. Currently, Canadians are pizzed at what Liberals have done to our military, hope to see more future cooperation as we fix our mistakes! www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/october/cuban-crisis-northern-vantage
“Before most likely succumbing to smoke inhalation, he used his last moments to guide other passengers to safety with his booming voice. I’ve heard more than one Canuck proudly declare that for all Rogers’ odes to Canada, he was never more Canadian than in his final words: ‘Let me help you.' “. Amber Frost, passenger, AC 797, after Stan Rogers helped her off the plane, before succumbing to smoke inhalation.
I was overjoyed to be riding my bicycle home from work tonight (Sep 18th, 2015) to hear Stan Roger's "Barrett's Privteers" being sung by a group of young guys in their 20's emanating from "Grossman's Tavern" in Toronrto. I stopped on my bike at the open window to join them for a refrain, my heart refreshed to hear a new generation embracing the songs of a great Canadian music hero, so easily forgotten by those who simply follow the "top 40" of today's radio and TV.
+Jeremy Nasmith I'm an American of Irish descent who lived in New Brunswick as a small child and was taught this song by my dad (Boston Irish)- he said "it's part of the tradition even though the Americans are the bad guys"
Its the unofficial Canadian Naval Anthem
enjoy it while ye can bud!
its very popular with Canadian engineering students!
That, and The Mary Ellen Carter and of course, Northwest Passage
I've sung this song in many public places, never sobre, and was always joined by volunteers to sing the chorus. You have to be in good shape to sing this song. I was a marathoner, and would still struggle to get through this without running out of breath.
You can see Stan wheezing at the end when they sing the song in the documentary :D
Last summer, my wife and I were at the Old Triangle in Halifax and heard McGinty sing 'Barrett's Privateers' - Canada's 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'Northwest Passage' - Canada's other national anthem. We're from Cut & Shoot, Texas and like everyone else in the audience, we knew all the words to both songs.
Stan Rogers is a Canadian National Treasure. He needs to be treasured accordingly.
That's awesome! But the Old Triangle is one of the worst Irish pubs here in Halifax. I live here and I was born here, and there are so many better pubs here. I recommend the Celtic Corner in Dartmouth. Ten times better than most pubs in Halifax. I recommend skipping out on the Old Triangle and getting the real Nova Scotia experience at the Celtic Corner, I recommend the steak and Guinness pie.
Oh I'd be willing to bet you'd find more than a few Nova Scotians knowing all the words to some Texas Treasure's songs too!
a true Canadian legend, may he rest in peace
RIP - Return If Possible
Nova scotia not Canada
Hes from Hamilton Ontario. He sang about more than just Nova Scotia. Obviously not a true fan haha
@@8ightBitKid Nova Scotia is in canada making him a CANADIAN legend
@@helenwalter8880 I know, right? Such an incredible talent
For the record, Americans love this song
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. I am jamming out hard to this as a lifelong Montana and I feel very powerful Pride
They played this song on Parliament Hill in Ottawa... Basically, with the whole "God damn them all!" line as a main bit of the chorus, playing in public, by the government, it made me proud to be Canadian.
Yay, GoCanada! Nope, Im not Canadian but I still love your country!!!!!! Sings, "oh Canada......"
*o canada
are you from america or something
@@aimeegreen thank I'm Canadian
Yeah, well our president bragged about sexually assaulting numerous women
How bout that for progressive?
Hahaha current Canadian gvt would never play this song on the hill
We used to sing this in the car on family road trips. We'd sing "gosh darn them all" if Gramma was in the car.
that is hilarious and wonderful! thanks for sharing Jenny :) what great family memories you have connected to this song! the sea is in my blood but im landlocked now. my family are landlubbers and they not into singing let alone hangin out with me lol. count your blessings Jenny and keep your family close in the bosom of your safe harbor. and keep on singing! :) many blessings, -Aimee
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I love this song but my husband doesn’t want the kids to sing it yet. I can’t wait to share it with them though!
XD that's what I always sing!
Yay for you, Jenny !!!
Had to give this a listen again after Polyphonic did a video about it.
It's crazy just how young Stan really was. With that voice of his, he sounds like he was over 40... but nope, just barely older than 30. It's interesting to ponder what could've happened if he wasn't taken from us. He surely would have had a really lengthy career. He'd probably still be going strong today, too.
+Daniel Babineau His boy sounds just like him .
His voice would have only gotten better with time too.
how did he die
Rogers died alongside 22 other passengers most likely of smoke inhalation on June 2, 1983, while traveling on Air Canada Flight 797 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) after performing at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
The airliner was flying from Dallas, Texas to Toronto and Montreal when a fire of unknown ignition source within the vanity or toilet shroud of the aft washroom forced it to make an emergency landing at the Greater Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky.
There were initially no visible flames, and after attempts extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, smoke filled the cabin. Upon landing, the plane's doors were opened, allowing the five crew and eighteen of the passengers to escape, but approximately 60 to 90 seconds into the evacuation the oxygen rushing in from outside caused a flash fire. Rogers was one of the passengers still on the plane at the time of the fire.
His ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Every time I am fortunate enough to get together and splash a little booze with my old high school buddies, it's only a matter of time before someone goes "ohhhhh the year was 1778". Makes no difference who starts it, every single one of us will immediately drop what we're doing and belt out "HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!" and then the entire song happens. I don't really remember how or why that tradition started but I sure do like how it's going
...now I'm a broken man crying a bucket o' tears...the last of the Queen's Financiers...
Lol
...but it's a foolish man who shows no fear at a glass of Garnet's homemade beer!
One of the most tragic losses in music history. Stan Rogers should be alive now with an extra 38 years of material and sitting on a Halifax pier looking on an amazing career.
Tears in my eyes every time I listen to Stan Rogers' LEGENDARY Songs....
I was about 4 when I first heard this song. I remember everyone gathered in our kitchen, feet stomping, drinks flowing and me sitting on my dad's knee waiting to sing "God damn them all"..the only time I had permission to swear. 40 years later and I'm still listening to Stan.🍁
As a resident of Halifax this is a theme song for our historical past ! I'm raising a pint in honor of a noble salute to Nova Scotia, 2022
Your historical past? Not quite! Nova Scotia (which included New Brunswick at the time) was damn near the 14th stripe on the US flag! The majority of the people supported patriotism but were severely outnumbered by the massive British military presence. You would know better than most how Halifax is a fond sibling to Boston, well it was 250 years ago too! When the Brits occupied Boston, the supplies bound for them were being burnt in Halifax! Most of the "English" population in NS was originally from the New England colonies. The rest were Irish, Scottish, Acadian and Native who weren't fond of the Brits one bit either!. It was only after the rebel forces started attacking and looting the civilian population that sentiments changed.
Saw him at the Folk Fest in Kerville Texas in 1983. We headed home with such a high but then heard he'd died on the way home due to a fire on his plane. Incredibly heartbreaking.
My dad will randomly sing this to the road trips when I was a child. Even though we didn't know what he was saying we will follow with the chorus every time. He was a Canadian and he married my mother here in Uruguay
My grandpa used to be in the Navy and he adored Stan Rogers...I grew up listening to this man and it's all I have left.
Can't believe he died at 33... RIP Sir.
Holy shit feathers! 33?! That means I only got 4 years before I start worrying!
just ten years older than the character singing this song
He died in a plane crash. IIRC, he survived initially, but went back in the plane to save people when said plane exploded, killing him and everyone else in there at the time.
Actually, the plane didn't crash, but landed (in Cincinnati) with the cabin interior in flames. There were some survivors.
Died a Hero, lives on as a Legend.
Anyone else randomly yell "God Damn Them All!" occasionaly?
Yup. If some situation gets awkward, like long silences, I yell it. Got some great expressions doing that
Ohhh yeah
Cinnamanster A so much more these days. President JC must have sung this often! Jimmy Carter ranted, “Fire no Guns, she’s no tears”
Cinnamanster A
Every freaking day!
todd canton my family survived and died in the Titanic, so it seems I’m still unsinkable. Mollie lived about thirty miles drum us in KCMO. Great Grandma Mollie Brown is about 10 years older or younger than the one in Hannibal and I think I have a grandma and her sister merged as the same woman.
US Grant brought back a lot of husbands! I just have no business on the WRONG side of the Arch of St. Louis! Good grief, younger republics in this country are like different countries compared to the states
HMS Antelope: No, you can’t just kill our captain with one shot after we sailed for 98 days with our cracked four-pounders!
Yanks: haha cannon go boom
its a privateer not a ship of the Navy so would be His Majesties Ship would just be "The Atalope" as stated in the song
Not a HMS.
Let us not forget the Shannon
Crack 4 pounders*... as in good 4 pounders
@@haraldisdead Unlikely
As an Maritimer.. and lover of pubs and beer.. I just might of heard this song once or twice.. Mug hits the table in time to the music. What a loss to the world. R.I.P. Stan
I remember sitting at the top of the stairs in my first house late at night, as a child, listening to this song as my parents played it downstairs. Great memories.
And that goes a long way toward explaining your great selection of chanteys :~)
Blackwells made sure men came back more whole than before, but the gaslighting! smdh Since Maryland was by the ocean, we learned shanty's but Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the 70s hit. I do remember when Stan passed, he just wasn't familiar on DC radio stations. This was Jimmy Carter's mission, where the country lost it's disco duck mind. The United States OF the Americas is in default of its Charter. I love this song. We were to have gone back to UK a LONG time ago.
It's amazing where you can find his fans; I dropped in at my college's gaming club and within minutes was surrounded by gamers belting out this song from memory. I was the only one in the room who was born before he died.
Just watched Stephen Colbert and Jack White perform some of this on The Late Show. What fun!
Goddammit Stan Rogers' story breaks my heart, and I can't hear his voice without thinking of how horrible his death was. His voice will forever haunt me.
This song brings back so many memories. My dad was big into folk music and I would hear this song blasting from the basement while he worked on his model trains. I don't think I've heard it in over 20 years, but as soon as the chorus started it all came back to me. I wish he was still around to share this video with. I'm sure it would have made him smile. Thank you for posting it.
last time my brother, friends, and I sang this in a bar we got a free pitcher of beer.. I love Wisconsin....
so I'm 7 years late to comment but the ending got me haha
THANK YOU For that !I am am PROUD "WISCONSIN-ITE"! :D Born and Bread or "Bread and Buttered" as my Irish Grand Father would often say! :D
I mean, it's Wisconson. May as well be Canadian, haha.
3:48 is the moment i can just feel the soul of this song. Stan rogers must have been a presence to be around
I've seen a lot of versions of this song and I'd say Stan Roger's version is the best.
+Carwyn Jones Well, he did write the song.
+Alison Malis
According to legend, he wrote it in 15 minutes on a bet.
+JJ Hall That proves even more how much of legend he was
I saw an interview where he said that he wrote it so he'd had the lead vocals, because this particular shanty he'd know better than anybody.
If you can at least sing the chorus to this song in a sailor's bar, you're basically part of the crew
Psychic investigat
If you can sing the chorus of this song anywhere Canada you're basically Canadian.
I keep getting picked last by the press gang,.
Lucky!
If you're a Nova Scotian every 2nd grader can sing it!
I remember going to see Stan with my mom , my sister, and some other fans at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. What a great concert and Stan's stage presence alone was almost too big for the place, let alone the rest of his band. He was a special man.
does my nova scotia heart good to hear this. few things are better than to have a few cold ones and have your best friend belt this out for a son back home from out west. thrown in a feed of lobsters and it doesnt get any better anywhere.
great.... from auld Scotia
goosebumps every time i hear it
My family, the Barnhills, came from Ireland to Nova Scotia pre Nova-Scotia - in 1700! (We've lost the accent.) Many still live in Debert. I visited with my mother, and had that feed of lobsters a few times. No, nothing gets better than that! (But would love to belt this out with friends there. How lovely!)
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The soul in the last verse, not just in the lyrics with the heartbreaking realization this poor kid is not only just 23 and uselessly crippled but that he's only just gotten home but the way Stan sings it is emotionally astounding
Was out with some mates a few weeks when I suddenly broke out into singing this. To my surprise they joined in with me. Nothing better than a good round of barret's privateers with ya mates out of the blue :D
god damm them all...lol,...you left us far too soon Stan.
Seriously, listen to his son. He's the spitting image of Stan at that age and does some damned good music too.
Storm Bringer. I think you mean GOD DAMN THEM ALL!!!!
English is not my first language and while doing some chores in dry January is listened to some Shantys when this song came up in my playlist I would always hear "I wish I wasn't sober now" and I related to that so much :D Furthermore it was difficult but interesting to find this song with only the wrong chorus in mind. Interestingly enough, this song still popped up under the first results when I googled it...
Oh, the year was 1778,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
A letter of marque came from the king,
To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen,
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
For twenty brave men all fishermen who
would make for him the Antelope's crew
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
On the King's birthday we put to sea,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
We were 91 days to Montego Bay
Pumping like madmen all the way
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
On the 96th day we sailed again,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
With our cracked four pounders we made to fight
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
The Yankee lay low down with gold,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
She was broad and fat and loose in the stays
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
Then at length we stood two cables away,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
Our cracked four pounders made an awful din
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
The Antelope shook and pitched on her side,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
And the Maintruck carried off both me legs
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
So here I lay in my 23rd year,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
It's been 6 years since we sailed away
And I just made Halifax yesterday
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.
Thank you!
@@LucksHenrikeeh
For your pleasure; of course😘
I have always loved the sound of Stan Rogers! His music and his voice...his songs rooted in history. I recently spoke to some teenagers and they, sadly, had no idea who he was. So I promptly put on Barrett's Privateers. I mean how can you not tap your foot to that! Exposing young people to such an incredible Canadian performer like Stan Rogers and his band is our responsibility as Canadians... keeping our history alive, and musicians who may not be with us anymore.
A song of sorrow and a song of the sea. A true inspiration. I'm to set sail from Pensacola to Havana on a 37' cutter at the end of this month. I listen to music like this as I prepare myself, physically and mentally. Cheers for the brilliant shanty. Wish me luck.
Still have both your legs?
Popcorn Horse I still do, thank the good Lord. And thank you for asking. The trip was a success as we came in (safely) 3rd in a filed of 12. Take care. ☺️
Nicholas Patton The voyage was a success. Another great surprise was August of last year crewing J/37 sloop on the Trans-Superior. After surviving a squall that included lightning, hail, 30kt winds and 6ft seas, we spend the 2nd half of the day in pure (but not unwelcome) boredom... I started to sing this song and found a crew member who knew the lyrics! I guess love of sea shanties - even recent ones - isn’t that obscure. Cheer. ☺️
Rest easy shipmate... coasties are easy to spot... one day you’ll only dream of setting sail once more
@@travisdthornton I'm afraid that what you say is only the truth.
belted this song out with two of my mates in an old sailor's bar, now inhabited generally by college students. The bartender was so pleased he brought us another pitcher of beer for free.
This man's voice is Canada to me. R.I.P. to the Legend.
whoa. if u've ever been part of a group singing harmony, you know how incredible that feels. can't help but sing along before it's halfway over even if you've never heard it before.
This guy is a true hero that gave his life to help others and left us great music,
Grew up just a stones throw from Canada and Stan’s music was one of the main reasons I learned to play guitar and sing. Each of his songs conjures up a story that we can all see so clearly. I was never able to see him live before he passed, I was able to see his brother. Both great men and great musicians. I miss music like this and the world needs more of it. Substance over flash.
He has been gone over 20 years, and we still miss him. Thanks for posting this -- some friends and myself got thrown out of the James Joyce Pub in Baltimore a couple of years ago for singing this song "too loud" during a break by Ronan Kavanagh. We were honored!
Awesome story, you the man. He is gone over 31 years now......
"TOO LOUD........." Impossible. lol
Imagine what Stan could have done if he hadn’t got on that wretched plane. So many songs we never got to hear. Legend.
How in God's name Stan could remember all those lyrics is astounding...nearly as much as that voice,and the writing.
I'm a CFA but brought my young family to Nova Scotia 17 years ago. I didn't realize how much I had become Nova Scotian until I heard Barrett's Privateers belted out in a pub in St. Johns. I got real misty
I just found this song randomly, I gotta say I really need to find so more music like this cause I know nothing about this song but I know I like it. If any one has any recommendations please lets hear em.
check out some more of the other Stan Rogers songs on my page, you will not be disappointed
Well there won't be anything new, Stan Rogers died in a tragic flash fire aboard a plane awhile back :*(
Stuart JSA Well, take a look at "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot, and "Wheat Kings" by The Tragically Hip.
Stuart JSA
Don't know a lot of his songs but my favourite Stan Rogers song so far is "Northwest Passage". First heard this song in an episode of Due South.
+Will Scheibler "Northwest Passage" is also known as Canada's second national anthem. The depth of Stan Roger's music, and lasting impact on the music scene, is damn near immeasurable. A true Giant!
My friends and I loved this song as young teenagers in Philly (late 70s or very early 80s). I transcribed the voices as well as I could so we could sing it. I was sorry I never got to see him perform live.
As a recent immigrant to Canada I was taught this song by other community radio junkies and assorted students in the pub at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Perhaps my favorite anti-war song of all time after years in the peace movement.
On a trip to Canada we visited the Algonquin national park and went on a canoe trip. It was all day so by the end of the day or the return journey we were getting tired. To keep us going our guide started singing this song! He got us all singing along and we forgot our tired arms and paddled like a pioneer. Brilliant
Can't help it when I listen to this, I start to pound the table with the beat and sing along. With an extra beat on the shed-no-tears and a missing one in the Now-I'm-a. And always that uplift on the now in wish-I-was-in-Sherbrook-now!
HIS A OTHER YANK SONG STYOLEN ITS CALLED I TOUCHED HER TOE
I've been familiar with this song for years and still enjoy it. Did anyone else first hear it on 'Due South'? That was a good show.
424 gold-owning Americans downvoted this.
No, one of them was the Cook, throwing up from alcohol poisoning in the scubbers
This yank up voted, and I'm keepin me gold.
Down like the antelope
I'm a non-gold owning American and I love this song. Always have. Not all us yanks are bad news.
A fat ball for you!
I work in a bureaucratic office environment. Somebody got sent this link in an email today and clicked on it. Three lines in and there were a dozen people singing it in the surrounding cubes. We wrapped up after two verses - at which point our director came running out of his office and said, "I was on the phone, did I miss 'Barrett's Privateers'?" It was like being back at the Lower Deck in Halifax.
As I am from the Maritimes I feel nothing but pride when I hear this.
It's probably 40 years ago....waiting at the gates of the Philadelphia Folk Festival for the evening concert...when...someone...started singing this to pass the time. By the second chorus everyone in line was singing.
I've loved this song for almost 20 years. The fact they lose in the end makes it the legendary song that it is! You learn more from your losses in life than your wins.
I've been a fan of this song for a long time. Thank you Mr. Rogers
This song has always been sung with gusto by my family and friends. So happy new people are discovering this amazing music.
He died a hero, sacrificing his life to save others. Canada should be proud of him.
He died so incredibly young for such an amazing talent. Far too you. I never realised he was diabetic, or at least had a life long illness, which makes his sacrifice for more poignant.
Did this song for a presentation to a Girl Scout Troop many years ago in old Sea Dog persona...changed it slightly to "God Take Them All."
Gods' Bless Stan and the joy he gave us.
Great adaptation for the young'us! God bless YOU Stefn!
Goosebumps. Every single time.
.I Grew up and still live in Halifax NS..Anyone who dislikes this has no idea what music is
I first heard this song performed at a renaissance fair of all places (by an act called the Rambling Sailors), and I loved it. It's an awesome song. I've always been drawn to songs that tell a story. All that Bieber and Gaga crap everyone my age listens to... Can't stand it. I listen to real music, thank you. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
I can't stop listening to this guy. What an awesome song and what an incredible loss for the world.
Awesome production. I'm so grateful to be able to find Stan in here. My sister was with him in Texas with some of her friends.....all from Dundas. He stayed a day extra and ended up on the doomed flight and my sister flew the same flight number the next day. I knew four people on Stan's flight. only one of them survived.. It was a dark day and still is.
Classic kitchen party tune
Damn he went out as hard as he lived
Thanks Stan for all of it
All of Canada still Misses you buy
everyone in halifax is getting drunk to this song tonight
9 years...? God what I'd give to be 8 again...
Cheers to that 🍻
Utah in the States here. Still getting drunk to this.
Amen
@@jibb1451 The song is about taking yo gold.
The tv show Due South is where I found this song in the mid 90s. And I was shocked to find out that he died at the airport that is 10 minutes from my house. I rermember seeing the story of the fire on the news when I was 13, but it was years befvore I realized what a treasure the world lost that day.
I love it when I can listen to a song and learn something historically accurate, if not literally true. I am a combat veteran and it feels great to sing along with this (even though I was US Army).
+Larry Reid : the feeling of camaraderie when struggling your way through this whole harangue is immense, and self-cancelling. Once upon a time; a few of my friends and I would spontaneously burst into this shanty at various venues. Needless to say, we got a lot of free drinks. However, I don't think we ever got past three renditions in three different bars before we called it a night.It's a wonderfully exhausting exercise. ~ S ~
Historically accurate, except that Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia didn't exist in until 1815 and Sherbrooke, Quebec was founded in 1818
@@notablegoat But Sherbrooke Nova Scotia was founded in 1805 and was known as Sherbrooke, and the one in Quebec was founded in 1763 but was not known as Sherbrooke yet, so you're technically right about the one in Quebec depending on your definition of founded.
I bet there are even Russians who sing along with The Boss and where he was born! This Canadian always sings along with Lee Greenwood - God Bless The USA!
This is amazing!
Oh Stan, love you forever 💓
im in halifax in yorkshire and i LOVE this
still counts. ye have enough of those filthy midshipmen and nco bars to qualify with the likes of halifax harbour and such on a thursday night.
I had a room-mate who played base in a bar band that included a Rankin cousin. They often got gigs in a bar in Penhorn Mall, but hated playing there. It was easy to shift the lyrics to "God-damn the mall". I don't think that anyone noticed, since they kept getting called back.
How I miss that beautiful dirt mall, it and its flea market.
I used to think it was "God damn them Ma"
Hehehe 😂
I learned to swim at Penhorn . Does the lake even exist now ?
Moving away from Halifax tomorrow… have this shit on repeat. My heart needs it
we'd fire no guns-shed no tears (DRINK MORE BEERS!!)
must up vote
stark1987 that's ruin the song
One of Stan Roger's friends made a parody of the song to rib at Stan, who was often hot tempered but then eventually came around to how funny the song was.
It was called Garnet's Homemade Beer, Garnet being Stan Rogers' brother.
I just watched Jack White and Stephen Colbert sing this song on live TV. What a shame we lost this man so early in his life.
556 down votes
*GOD DAMN THEM ALL!!*
Down votes?
RIP Stan Rogers.
You will be forever missed.
We're all slightly broken now, without you.
Such a powerful voice rest in peace Stan
I've frequented various Irish pubs in the Montreal area in these past several years, and nothing compares to Stan Rogers version.
I was just watching a documentary about 1983 plane that had to make emergency landing because of the fire and Stan Rogers was on it, he was one of 23 people who didn't get out before the plane burst into flames. His friend was talking about him, what a wonderful person he was. RIP
me too I just watched the plan crash doco, sad for him and canada
In 2017, during Operation Inherent Resolve, I was deployed on the USS GHW BUSH in the med/gulf. Every day before flight schedule we would sing along to this song (granted it was the Real McKenzies version). Loading bombs and fuel on our jets to drop on ISIS in the early morning with your shop singing this in unison really felt like something pulled out of Master and Commander or Pirates of the Caribbean. Some of my fondest memories.
Love stories like that
@@joshuafriesen4436 lol MY war? You seem to be wound a little too tight buddy
@@joshuafriesen4436 Joushu el bhagddy
I love his music. His son has long since picked up where dad left off and voice-wise is a dead ringer for dad
Heard this for the first time at an Ontario folk festival in the late 70's. Loved it but didn't know who wrote it and never heard it again until the mid 80's at a bar in New Glasgow Nova Scotia. Fast forward to the 90's I received a package in the mail from Nova Scotia Tourism which included a CD with east coast music. Lo & behold, it was the first track. Been a Stan Rogers fan since. BTW. How can you tell a Newfoundlander in heaven? He's the one who wants to go home.
What bar? I am from New Glasgow
@@PolarAppleCaps That was a long time ago my friend. Maybe 1985. No idea what the bars name was. It was near a plaza on East River Road.
A Canadian treasure.