“Gull Cove”

Description

If you commit to fishing Gull Cove and "if the codfish fades away as it often done before, We could lose our year in Gull Cove, where the stormy winds do blow." The song describes a bad year and all the boats that lose the year.

Notes

Lehr/Best: Gull Cove is near Branch, St Mary's Bay [at the southwest corner of the Avalon Peninsula]. - BS

Recordings

  • Anita Best, "Gull Cove" (on NFABest01)

References

  1. Lehr/Best 48, "Gull Cove" (1 text, 1 tune)
  2. BI, LeBe048

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1979 (Lehr/Best)
Keywords: fishing hardtimes
Found in: Canada(Newf)