Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
Advertise here
Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
I'se the B'y
'I'se the b'y that builds the boat' - the Newfoundland dance song every visitor is taught by the end of the night.
'I'se the B'y' is a Newfoundland dance song of unknown authorship, with variants going back possibly to the 1870s. Folklorist Kenneth Peacock collected it in 1951 from Lloyd Soper of St. John's, and it spread nationally through the 1954 collection Folk Songs of Canada and Gerald Doyle's Newfoundland songbooks, which printed it free for schools. Alan Mills recorded it for Folkways in the mid-1950s and Great Big Sea cut it in 1993; it remains one of the most widely recorded and instantly recognized Newfoundland songs, with place-names like Fogo and Twillingate built into its verses.
Fact
Where that comes from
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
