welcome to the newfoundland and labrador
folk festival 2020 digital edition
presented by equinor
we begin our final episode with the
winner of the music nl talent contest
beth lane followed by two other young
performers matilda goldie and julia
bryant
we'll also have lomond sound playing some
tunes that go along with running the
goat
and our dancenl dance break will have
tanya kearley russell explaining some of
the steps
anita best and sandy morris will give us
a few songs
and closing out our digital festival are
the once
our next competitor in the newfound
talent competition is the one and only
beth lane
17 years old from bishops falls
newfoundland and labrador and she's
performing the best part
a little bit about beth is that beth has had
a passion for music since the age of
three
that enthusiasm has led her to be able
to play a wide range of instruments
with musical versatility that extends on
to many styles
and genres i can't wait to hear best
part give it up
for our girl beth lane
oh
yeah
you don't know baby
when you hold me
and kiss me slowly it's the sweetest
thing
and it don't change
if i had it my way yes
you would know that you are oh
you're the coffee that i need in the
morning
you're the sunshine in the rain when
it's pouring
won't you give yourself to me give it
all i just wanna see
i just wanna see how
beautiful you are
you know that i see it
i know you're a star
where you go i'll follow
no matter how far
if life is a movie, then you're the best part oh
you're is the best part oh
the best part is the sunrise
and those brown eyes yes
you're the one that i desire
when we wake up and i turn to see your
face love
it just makes me feel so nice
you're my water when i'm stuck in the
desert
you're the tylenol i take when my head
hurts
you're the sunshine all my life
i just wanna see how beautiful you are
you know that i see it i know you're a star
where you go i'll follow
no matter how far
if life is a movie
then you're the best part
oh whoa oh you're
the best part oh
best part if you love me won't you say
something if you love me won't you
won't you if you love me won't you say
something babe you love me won't you
love me won't you if you love me won't
you say
something if you love me won't you
if you love me won't you say something
if you love me won't you love me
won't you
thank you
in the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty i long to be
in the warm hold of your loving mind
to feel you all around me to take your hand along the sand oh but i may as well
try and catch the wind
sunset pales the sky
i wanna hide a while behind your smile
and everywhere i look
your eyes i'd find
... your heart is where i want to be i long to be
oh but i may as well try and catch the wind
when the rains...
i want you near to kill my fears to help me leave all my... behind for me to love
you now would be the sweetest thing
't would make me sing
oh but i may as well try and catch
oh but i may as well try and catch
oh but i may as well try and catch
the wind
she said she couldn't dance because of
social distancing she wouldn't take the
chance
because she was considering the
implications of
the spreading of the virus but when
covid it is over she will dance like
billy cyrus
me ring a ding a ding me ring a ding a  daddy-o me ring a ding a ding
let's all...
walk me to the corner when the moon is
full
tell me that you've never seen any moon
as beautiful as me
never seen the stars shine so bright
i'm the one that you've been watching
all night
walk me out to where the lights are dim
give me something to remember
to forget about him do anything
darling i won't fight i never met a liar
that i
didn't like dance me cross the dance
floor
one more time now tell me
everything that's going on in your mind
every little thing you never could say
to any other love you never could sway
oh
whisper to me i'm your heart's delight
i'm your heart's desire while the moon's
on fire
take me in your arms and hold me tight
i never met a liar that i didn't like
no i never met a liar that i
couldn't fall for under any moon
or over any dance floor
walk me to the door beneath the neon
light
whisper to me everything's gonna be all
right
lead me up the long stairway to the door
at the end of the long dark hallway
don't be afraid don't be ashamed ask
anything
darling but don't ask my name
turn up the radio turn down the light
i never met a liar that i didn't like
no i never met a liar that i
couldn't fall for under any moon
or over any dance floor
don't be afraid don't be ashamed ask
anything
darling but don't ask my name
turn up the radio turn down the light
i never met a liar that i didn't like
no i never met a liar that i
didn't fall for under any moon
or over any dance floor
as i rode ashore for my schooner close by
a girl on the beach i had a chance to
espy
her hair it was red and her bonnet was
blue
and her place of the boat was in harbour
le cou
so boldly i asked her to walk on the
sand
she smiled like an angel and held out
her hand
so i button me guernsey and i huff away
me chew
in the dark rolling waters of harbor
le cou
my ship she lay anchored far out on the
tide
as i strolled along with this maid by me
side i told her i loved her and i said
i'd be true
as i winked at the moon over harbour le cou
my ship she lay anchored far out on the
tide
as i strolled along with this maid by me
side
i told her i loved her and i said i'd be
true
as i winked at the moon over harbor le cou
and as we strolled along at the close of
the day
i thought of me wife who was home in
torbay
and i knew that she'd kill me if only
she
knew i was courtin' a lassie in harbor le cou
now we passed an old cabin that stood on
the shore
where i met an old comrade i'd sailed
with before
he treated me kindly says jack how are
you
it's so seldom we see you in harbour le cou
now as we were parting this maiden in
tow
he broke up the party with one single
blow regards to your missus and wee
kiddies too
i remember her well she's from harbor
le cou
well i looked at this damsel standing
alongside
her jaw did drop and her mouth opened
wide
and then like as she cat upon me she
flew
and i fled from the furies of harbour
le cou
so come all ye young sailors who walk
on the shore
beware those comrades you've sailed with
before
be aware of those maidens and their
bonnets
of blue those pretty fair damsels of harbour le cou
(Subtitles not available in English)
to everything there is a first time for every song there is a right rhyme
even tiny dreams come
at a great cost just as every game
arrives with great loss
behind each truth there hides a lie so
sweet beyond each trust
lurks the heart of jealousy where goes
the cross
there goes the carrier and to
every lost soul there comes a savior
here we are in time when all things
shall be known
here we are in space beyond the blazing
sun spirits of steel
in shells so fragile old as the hills
and still a small child
na na na na
na na na na
to everything there is that first time
for every song
there is that right rhyme even tiny
dreams
come at a great cost just as every game
arrives with great loss
behind each truth there hides a lie so
sweet
beyond each trust lurks the heart of
jealousy where goes the cross
there goes the carrier and to
every lost soul there comes a savior
here we are in times when all things
shall be known
here we are in space beyond the blazing
sun spirits of steel
in shells so fragile old as the hills
and still a small child
well i remember the morning
that i sailed away
turning one last time i blew a kiss
to her she smiled at me
from the cold edge
of the water
i turned my face to the wind
and the tears followed
last night i dreamed that i
lay beside her clinging
to her like a child
to his mother
when i awoke the cold lay claim to my heart
knowing full well as
i whispered her name i
never would smile upon her
sweet face again
well i remember the morning
that i sailed away
we were bound home in october
from the shores of labrador
trying to race a bold nor'easter and snow too
while the winds swept down upon us making day as dark as night
just before we made the land at baccalieu
well we tried to clear the island
as we brought her farther south
but the wind from out the Nor'east stronger blew
and our lookout soon he shouted
for there right dead ahead
through the snow squalls loomed the cliffs of baccalieu
and it was hard down with the tiller
as we struggled with the sheets
trying our best to haul them in a foot or too
and our deck so sharply tilted
we could scarcely keep our feet
as we struggled on the rocks of baccalieu
for the combers beat her under
and i thought she'd never rise
And her mainboom was bending nigh in two
and all hands clung to...
as they stared with straining eyes
Down to leeward at the cliffs of Baccalieu
for to leeward stood the island
and to windward was the gale
and the blinding sleet would cut you through and through
With our lee rails three feet under and two hands at the wheel
we hauled her from the cliffs of baccalieu
yes we hauled her to the southward
and her canvas stood the strain
and the blinding snow gusts from
the nor'east flew
but our hearts were beatin' gladly
when no longer could we gaze
down to leeward at the cliffs of baccalieu
oh hello there welcome to wee minds the
time
the dance episode and today
we are joined by covid 19 frontline
workers
to make sure we follow all the ppe
mask rules for socially distanced
dancing oh they've gathered somewhere in
the center of town
that looks interesting to me i'd like to
see what they're doing it's
is it a hoe down is it a renaissance
fair
no it's a set dance
and it looks like they're all numbered
off ready to go
so what do you do when you can't get
together with other bubbles to
huff and puff and run the goat well
you socially distance it once you have
your partner and you're on the
dance floor you should have a couple in
each of the four places
marked on the screen men on the left
women on the right
your other left
mistakes are always bound to happen and
when you start dancing to the music you
can always correct
so couple one two three and four facing
off
on the floor at the beginning of the
goat there is no
full chorus however it looks like one
everybody joins hands and circles round
one full time until they stop at home
and then they dance on the spot
then they will dance circling back
this is the chorus but without
through the woods and the tune which is
played
goes like this
as you can see when they finish circling
back
they swing their partners now it's very
important
that you turn face your partner take
your partner
right hand on your partner's hip left
hand on their shoulder
and keep eye contact because you could
get dizzy and fall down
so if you look at your partner's earlobe
jawline shoulder
you should be pretty safe
the first figure in running the goat
after the brief startup is the promenade
couple number one looks down through the
set and the opposite
couple splits apart so there are two
equal lines on
either side so that means couple number
three has to split
apart when couple number one gets down
to the bottom the two lines dance up
and meet in the center now they would
simultaneously be
dancing skipping silly walk you name it
whatever the dancers are comfortable
doing
back to the home position when they get
up to the top
in their space the two lines dance back
again
these two lines would be expected to
hold hands
on either side and usually
pets aren't allowed on dance floors like
that cat was just now
they dance up again and they would do
this
for a total of three times
three times when they finish all
four couples would swing their partner
and then couple two would begin to
promenade splitting through couple
four the tune required for the promenade
at the beginning of running the goat
dance
is the self-titled tune running the goat
it goes like this
and couple number two would split
through couple number four
so four splits apart they try not to
lose their footing
but sometimes these things happen wear
comfortable shoes
and make sure if your partner falls down
you do your best to pick them back
up so couple number two would do that
three times
after the first figure the promenade the
very first
full chorus will begin all hands join
the circle
circle round and circle back remembering
to go all the way to their home position
before they turn around
to go back the other direction then we
head into what's called through the
woods
some people know this as hand over hand
or
chain for the purposes
of the wee folk it's through the woods
you turn and face your partner take your
partner's right hand
and you're going to grapevine or weave around
the circle like so
it's difficult to do with just one hand
but the men all go one direction weaving
in and out
and the women all go the opposite
direction
weaving in and out you will meet your
partner
about halfway home on the opposite side
of the set you keep going
right left right left this looks like a
bit of a dog's breakfast
and you know what when we dance it it
looks like that the first couple of
times
also because we aren't real live
dancers in this video i recommend
that you google on the youtube
a few local running the goat versions
if you type in running the goat you'll
get any number of local dance groups
involving some i've done and some from
sheila's brush
and you'll see how through the woods
goes
the tune will be for the chorus
whichever tune the previous figure
has had in this case we're going to
finish up
after the promenade with the running the
goat tune
the second figure in running the goat is
men and women step out the man takes his
partner's right arm
and swings her around by the elbow
one and a half full time with the left
elbow moves to the second woman
back to his partner with the right
elbows and then
off to the third woman it helps if each
subsequent partner comes into the center
to meet him
saves time he goes back to his partner
swings right elbows remember your
partner gets your right elbow because
they're the right one for you
even when you're knocking them down and
everyone else gets your left
elbow now when he's finished swinging
his partner and all the ladies
he's going to move on to all the men now
he doesn't link
right elbows with the men left elbows
with
men sorry he will take them by the hand
and they will dance on the spot do a
little jig
the music played for this is called
round and
ruby's garden
and the second man will start
hey i'm david king david
your go-to goat for all things trad
with the wee minds the time players do
you mind the time
wee minds the time stay tuned next time
to learn the rest of how to run the
socially distanced
goat you'll learn all the tricks
hi everyone my name is navl i want to
thank
nl folk fest to be part of this edition this year this last episode we want to highlight
the contribution of
african and afro-descendant community
in newfoundland and labrador
thank you
i am shaker obika
i was born and raised in alexandria
egypt a country of ancient
history and good people
i came to newfoundland in the mid 60s
just for exploration
i love the people i love the land
this has become my second home
i am a retired pediatrician
who served the people of newfoundland
for almost 50 years in this capacity
the children were good to me i tried to
serve them well
and i'm grateful for the opportunity
given to me throughout
my name is lloydetta quaicoe and i'm
originally from freetown sierra leone in
west africa
and i've been living in this province
since 1982
my contributions to this province is the
sharing our cultures program
when i started the program there wasn't
anything for high school students to be
able to share their cultures and to be
able to speak to themselves
in their own way to the rest of the
province so i decided that by starting
sharing our cultures
it empowers students from diverse
cultural backgrounds
to give them that opportunity so not
only do they learn skills through the program
but they also get to share their
cultures with the rest of the province
in their own way
and in their own from their own
perspectives and not from somebody
else's way
my name is sylvester edmond i'm
originally from nigeria
i've been in newfoundland for over eight
years now
when i came to newfoundland in 2011 to
go to the university
to mun and uh yeah i studied economics
and statistics
well um during my time in school i was
able to
i noticed there wasn't a lot of urban
streetwear brands
in the province so uh considering the
fact that i love
fashion and i love a lot of things about
clothing i decided to
open a business called 709 supply co
which is a streetwear brand
here in the province
my name is yaw anti-adjei from ghana west
africa
and i've been here for four and a half
years
if my memory serves me right i happened to meet
a good guy who carried me
and mentored me
meeting him everything changed i became
a partner in the business and we've been
working since
yeah haircut is one thing that people
identify with and we offer
a haircut for afro-hair and also we do caucasian hair
but the mere fact that we offer that
service and people who come
in have um those services
accessible it's a fine contribution that
we are
doing to this society
hi my name is gustavo valoyes
i'm from colombia and i have been in
newfoundland 16 years
i came to newfoundland with my family
looking for new opportunities
first of all i i work as a in the
healthcare
as a practical nurse i work in the
mental health and addictions also i
am working at this barbershop we created
this barbershop to
help the community working with the
young guys encourage them
the and teaching that the sky is the
limit
they they once they are here in canada
if they study hard and they work hard
they will go anywhere they can do
whatever whatever their dreams their
dreams are
they can they manage to accomplish
anything they just have to work a little
bit hard and then
they will be able to to go far
(Subtitles not available in English)
hi everybody we're the once see
we want to thank you so much for joining
us joining us today um
this is andrew this is phil i'm geraldine
just sit back
relax take in some music
what a week maybe you had let's shake it
off
here's a song called we are all running
do you believe in faith
that we've been traveling on the same path
it's taken miles to make it here
and in the end it seems so
clear we are we are all running
we are all running
the same race we
are we are all going
we are all going
to the same place
how long have you been on this road
and why do you carry such a heavy load
stay a while and ease your mind
the truth is rare and hard to find we are
we are all running we are all running
the same race we are
we are all going we are
all going to the same place
long is the road we travel on
hard is the shoulder we cry upon
dark is the night before the dawn
The brightest morning is still to come
We are all running, We are all running
The same race
We are, We are all going, We are all going
To the same place
We are, We are all running, We are all running
The same race
ba be da da ba be da da ba be da da ba
thank you so much well we miss being in
the park
so this will have to do um i think
we're just gonna do some songs it's been
a long time since i've been in the park
ever since it started
have you ever since the whole thing
started you just did yeah i found a
slack line that was strung between the
two trees that somebody had left over
from last year
yeah and over i guess a four month period
i managed to
pull and it's a very very difficult
strap to pull on
wide enough to make kind of like a
spider webby
very thin think that stuff that you hang
over
your porch at halloween oh yeah but a
hammock
i believe you yeah i believe you really
high
people thought you were a spider for
sure um
i thought the spiders did until i
learned their language oh
i've been there for four months it's
quite simple wow i was thinking about
learning a new language in the summer
it's the dialect that's cool difficult
yeah yeah
the colloquialisms that's right i just
don't get spider yeah it's awkward
yeah yeah yeah i wish i'd put a camera
on you
speaking of awkward welcome i'm done now
so you flies now cool um
i mean as far as segways goes that's one
that is yeah
what you like to do next geraldine well
i think you know
when i think about us as a band and when
we first started and it's
really awesome to be hanging out with
you two by the way like this ditto
um i think about the song the leonard
cohen song called coming back to you
and the first time we were invited to do
a show in st john's
and we got to sing learn this song
because phil's mom loved it and phil
wanted to do it mudder loved
her so i think we should do this one
coming back to you by leonard cohen
maybe i'm still hurting
i can't turn the other
cheek but you know
that i still love you
it's just that i can't
speak i've looked for you
in everyone and they called me
on that too i
lived alone but i was
only coming back to you
they're shutting down the factory now
just when
all the bills are due
in the fields they're under
lock and key though the rain and the sun
come
through and springtime
starts and then it stops
in the name of something
new and all my senses
rise against this coming
back to you
And they're handing down my sentence now and i know
what i must do
Another mile of silence while
i'm coming back to you
there are many in your life
and many still to be
since you are a shining light
there's many that you'll see
but i have to deal with envy
when you choose the precious
few who left their pride
on the other side of
coming back to you
even in your arms
i know i'll never
get it right
even when you've been
to give me comfort
in the night I've got to have your word on this Or none of
it is true
and all i've said was just instead
of coming
back to
you
oh my sweet whoo my face
yeah you know who i still think about
and she played a few weeks ago amelia
curran
and remember when we were doing our
first album she was doing hunter hunter
and she gave us a song to do on our
record
and we sang back up on her album the
good old barter system was
alive and well yeah and uh this is a
song
called what will you be building one of
my favorite songs of hers really not
because she gave it to us it's just
got a feel for the world in it and
the place that maybe we're not supposed
to be in it and it makes me think that
if we think if we swivel just a little
bit
we'll get it right oh squeaky squeaky my swivel sounds
like seagulls
i love it listen if we swivel like that can you hear this
stop hahaha stop
actually when we recorded this song
oddly enough when we recorded this song
there you go remember there was a crow
at the end of it
and we kept it in the recording if you
listen very carefully
to the end of this song on our uh on our
debut album yep you'll hear
just the faint cawing of a crow right at
the end of the song
yeah it's actually it's actually been
amplified
um just slightly um in the remaster for
the uh for the vinyl that uh that just
came out
good timing just saying just thought i'd
a lot of copies yeah it came out because
of the 10th anniversary of uh
putting it out yeah it came out the 11th
year of our 10th anniversary and in good
in good once fashion
we had it in our hands in time for the
11th anniversary
the first anniversary of the 10th anniversary
what will you be building when you have to go
well that is the only thing
that i need to know
and what slip of the hard hand
will close the big show
and what will you be building
when you have to go
there's very few reasons poor
people have found
to grow any older is to run with the hounds And hounds and poor people
make money go
'round
And money makes favours and fevers and clowns
oooooh
oooh
and i'll write my name on a big piece of
paper
i'll write down my secrets i'll 
get me an acre
And I'll build me a fortune just to pay for a saviour
and i'll empty my pockets at last
for my maker
what will you be building when you have to go
well that is the only thing that I need to know
and What slip of the hard hand will close the big show
And what will you be building when
you have to go
and what will you be building
when you have to go
seagull amelia curran b'y
nailed it yeah yeah
gull was right on cue i actually made a
list of songs that i want to do you guys
can
say if you want to do something then
i'll change my mind but you know what i
think i'm going to miss the most about
um uh doing this in the park
even though this is great it's lovely
very nice b'ys have done an amazing job
here it's
really good thanks b'ys yeah shout out to
canadian av for thank you all for the
effort for all the beautiful set up and
making us feel so welcome yeah
but i'm really gonna miss like after
you've done your set and you're kind of
hanging out
backstage after you know hanging by the
fence and just kind of like checking out
other bands
i'm really going to miss people you
you know kind of leaning over the fence
on the beer tent asking when you're
going on
hammered pushing the thing over after
you're done but you know
like you know good while after you're
done
and then you tell them no we're well
we're done they go oh i didn't know
man nobody said anything and then
you say schedule for that
you say yeah but you should definitely
check out who's playing now this is such
a great band they go oh man i totally
will
as they're walking away back to the beer
tent it's a double party
i'll miss that yeah
some more memories i don't think anybody
played tonight ...
i don't think there's any bands b'y
cheers
um cheers everyone what if we do
fool for you yeah
so what if we do what if indeed
what do you think will happen i don't
know
let's find out i do i do enjoy
this is a song that we put on our own
departures and i remember we had a
little
a desk in a this is a hotel room song right yeah
oh many desks many hotel rooms
many pieces of notepads i brought so
many notepads home with so many ideas on
it
and but and you know you're working it
out forever and ever and then i just
found a little room and it kind of
kicked me
when i was having a hard time with the
fellow
and i didn't know how to be in this
relationship
anymore and i was just gonna even though
i knew i would never leave
because i know because i had lived the
ups and downs enough
i just in that moment i had to just
write this feeling because i knew it was
such a feeling that
many people have so i'm leaving i don't
know what to do and
just to feel that lost and then trying
to find your place back in it after a
while and knowing you're going to go
back
and that's the joy of it because you
know you're whether you feel like it's
you're in a terrible place you're not
it's only a temporary little down area
such is life
i'm leaving cause i'm so
tired of never knowing
what to do
i'm feeling you got me
hired to be
a fool for you
i dreamed you'd love me
i dreamed you'd want me
if i did more more than you asked me to
but all you needed
was for someone to prove a fool for you Oh, to be a fool for you.
when we first met i measured you up
to the sky
and you made promises
you knew you'd turn into lies and i know
that your tortured soul will break my heart in two You'll let me be a fool for you.
Oh, to be a fool for you.
When we first met I measured you up to the sky 
And you made promises you knew you'd turn into lies.
Still, I know that my hopeless heart will break the halves in two, just
to be  a fool for you.
Oh, to be a fool i'm leaving 'cause i'm so tired of never knowing
what to do
And I'm feeling you got me hired
To be a fool for you. Oh, to be a fool for you.
Oh, to be a fool for you.
just to be a fool for you
you let me be
a fool for you let me be a fool for you
that reminds me of all broken bottles
become sand at the sea
no because there's sand in it there's
sand and it's broken it's totally
want to do that one yeah okay yes girl
so i'm rolling today
it's kind of a good way to roll the last
four months have been a little bit of
just rolling with it
life is odd duck
phil has a shirt matt wright put out
existing is exhausting and it sure is
so thank heavens we have each other
that's right
it's called gonna get good this is phil
churchill everybody and he's gonna take
the lead on this one
i got it
Well we know that you've been getting tired
Cause lately you've not been on fire
You're feeling you're soft but you're carved out of wood
And it'll never get easy
But baby
It's gonna get good
you say that she's jealous She'll say that you're wrong
But you know that she'll know before summer is gone
Because it's already
Dragged on for too long
Cause fellas like you put their sins into song
And you'll
Never get all of the things that you could
it'll never get easy but baby It's gonna get good
No it'll never get easy but baby it's gonna get good
Well the easiest things aren't the things that you need
and if i'm honest it's never the problem
it seems
then you'll never believe but you should
it'll never get easy but baby it's gonna get good
And every night
despite a reason why
You hold your heart up
to the stars of the sky
But the lower you go just means the harder you try
but you keep looking up cause you're
that kind of guy
and you'll never forget all of the things
that you
could it'll never get easy but baby it's
gonna get good oh it'll never be easy
but baby it's gonna get good ah yeah ah
Go on, free the boy you used to be 'cause
He knows all broken bottles become sand at the sea
And every night despite a reason why
You hold your heart up to the stars in the sky
But you never quite get there, not in your hardest try
But you keep looking up 'cause you're that kinda guy
and you'll never get all of the things
that you
could it'll never get easy but baby it's gonna get good it'll never get easy but baby it's gonna get good
it'll never get easy but baby it's gonna get good
ah ah Go on - free the boy you used to be
Go on - free the boy you used to be
Go on - free the boy you used to be
'cause he knows all broken bottles become sand at the sea
phil churchill phil turtle nice one
buddy
boy i don't know maybe we should do
another acapella
maybe we should do a song called by the
glow of the kerosene light
um a song appreciated in newfoundland and
labrador
for those of you who are listening from
away you may have heard some
versions of this one this is ours um
we learned it from buddy wasisname and the
other fellers
and there was a missus in trinity
michelle rex
the best version i've ever heard yeah
hands down and
she used to sing it actually i didn't
want to touch it because hers was so
good
and in singing it around the world it's
gone on now to another band called
hermitage green from
ireland yeah who do a really gorgeous
version of it and
it's just neat to kind of like
hand the vibe and feelings of this back
to ireland and kind of listen to them
and watch them kind of push it through
too it's just neat to watch
you know because you hear like this like
story traditions of songs and songs
getting passed down
but i don't think i've ever been
involved in it
like directly involved in like oh i
learned this from somebody
who just taught it to me and then after
i found the version that they learned it
from and found out that that wasn't that
the writer of it either and then kind of
learning the history of it and then
doing it yourself
and then performing it in a bunch of
places and watching it
continue it's like oh link in the chain
link in the chain you are now officially
part of the fabric of the oral tradition
yeah from
uh ellis & wince coles buddy wasisname
and the other fellers michelle rex
hermitage green and all the other people
who've done it but in terms of your
your own link that you can you know
you grab hold of and feel a part of it's
just cool it's nice
man i hope we don't blow this now like
after that that's i mean it's it's quite
it's quite a sound wouldn't it suck
anyway ladies and gentlemen
buddy wasisname and the other oh wouldn't that be awesome that would be so amazing
we actually did get to do that out in grand
falls we did sing it with them yeah in
grand falls it was really cool salmon
fest
yeah very cool yeah of all places wicked b'y
how did they let us do salmon fest um
anyway may i have a note please
please sing along out there we'd be delighted sing loud enough we might even
hear you
i remember the time when
my granddad and i
would sit by the fire at night
and i'd listen to stories
of how he once lived
by the glow of the kerosene light sing it with her by the glow of the kerosene light
He said Mom and Dad
sent me off to school where i learned how to read and
to write And they listened for hours
as i read from my books by the glow of the kerosene light By the glow of the kerosene light.
Your grandma and I we were wed at 16
lord she was a beautiful
sight
And proudly I placed the ring on her hand
By the glow of the kerosene light.
By the glow of the kerosene light.
about one year later
your daddy was born
and your grandma held my hand so
tight oh i can't tell the joy
as she brought forth new life
by the glow of the kerosene
light by the glow of the kerosene light
but having her child
it did weaken her so
she just wasn't up to
the fight
but she looked so peaceful
as she went to her
rest by the glow
of the kerosene
light
by the glow of the kerosene light
then as now the times they were
hard to succeed you
would try all your might and sometimes love bloomed but sometimes dreams died
By the glow of the kerosene light.
By the glow of the kerosene light.
By the glow of the kerosene light.
there we go
thanks for singing out there we know it
you did
appreciate it and and thanks for tuning
in
yeah please stick around if you left and
came back yeah we're still here
we like it here we do have to go
eventually we'll do a couple more songs
for you
um you know if it's okay with these
two gents
um i wouldn't mind doing um a tim baker
song
yep that he gave us that song he gave
you
um i know it you know it that's good
hey rosetta feller
wrote a beautiful song for phil when he
was going through a really rough time
and uh we're really grateful for it it's
seen us through a lot of rough times
ourselves in the
and we we will cherish it
and we put it on our last record the
time enough one
and we want to thank him for it right
here um
it's uh it's a song for you if you've
lost someone if you're feeling forlorn
from the world
then missing that connection it's about
finding it wherever you can
'cause you can it's like under rocks
and stuff
it's all around yeah it's all around us
really cool over the lockdown getting to
watch people like um
like tim just do acoustic stuff in the
room you know because you forget
sometimes you're such a rock star that
it's like no no he's
just a singer-songwriter human of
of epic proportions you know and to get
to see that like
yeah sometimes you forget how good the
b'ys are
and please out there everyone i know
we're into some nice weather and whatnot
but uh please keep
keep tuning in to all those all those
beautiful humans who are
singing those songs and laying their
hearts out on the line online
for you please keep supporting them keep
supporting
virtually live music and and please
please come out when that virtual goes
away and it's live music
once again because we're going to be
looking for you and we're going to be
very excited to see you in person again
thank you for
being a friend travel down the road and
back again your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant and if we threw a party
invited everyone we knew
you would see the gift this gift would
be for me
and the card attached would say thank
you for being
a friend ba ba bum
also if you're watching from away we
paid for that
um but b'ys is gender neutral
so when i say the b'ys i mean everybody
but not everybody might know that 
that we use it that's right and if
there's people in newfoundland are
thinking no you don't
uh yeah we do now we do and often have
so there you go
this is for my mom and she was one of
the b'ys
there's a quality of life
when the day is dying
when the day is dying
it's the blue black and white
of my true love's eyes
of my true love's eyes
i see you in the trees
and in the heavin' sea
in the heavin' sea
i feel you lean against me
in the fire's heat
in the fire's heat
you are with me now
i can feel you here
somehow
love you're always with me
and no the distance
can't come between and though
i cannot touch you
you know i got you next to me oh oh oh
some lies you suspect and some are definite
some are definite
like this breath that's on my skin it's just the evening wind
as if it's just the evening wind
know you are with me now
i can feel you here somehow
i can feel you here somehow
love you're always with me
and no the distance can't come between
and though i cannot touch you
you know i got you
next to me oh love
you're always with me and no the distance can't come between
and though
i cannot touch you
you know i got you
next to me oh oh oh
oh oh oh
goodbye
goodbye goodbye
i'll see you when i close my tired eyes goodbye
it's a lie it's a lie
i'll see you when i close my tired eyes
goodbye goodbye goodbye
i'll see you when i close my
tired eyes goodbye
it's a lie it's a lie
i'll see you when i close my tired eyes
thanks everyone i want to do one more
song
unless someone tells us that's not
nearly enough or someone comes in and
says that's way too much
um that's right gone
... what are you thinking um
well i was thinking
a song for memory oh yeah yeah
george murray penned a poem
and we turned it into a song
and uh yeah there's something about
this day and the feel that we're in
right now and
just that we can only be in a room with five
people at a time
and it's just that you know the sadness
the loneliness but the joy that you find
well it's like there's the kind of a
theme tonight it's just finding
little pockets of joy where you can and
peace i like um phil's dad used to say
although i never heard him say it i used
what are you doing he's like i'm just
going to be
just find a place to be just being yeah
just staring out the window what are you
doing just being just being
i love that we hope you're all finding
those moments
to just be out there we hope you're
maybe just being with us here right now
yeah and not just being safe although we hope you are 'cause hopefully you're doing that but also
um
being grateful if you've got a job and
you got a roof over your head
and uh you're not someone who's having
their civil
civil liberties violated daily
then appreciate your situation you know
appreciate it and and spread that kind
of
good fortune around as much as you can
appreciate what you do have
in your life try not to dwell too too
much
on the things that you don't have or you
feel like
you've been denied now i think dwell for
five minutes and then go about your
business what's that
i think you gotta dwell on it for five
minutes i think you really have to go down
there to know but keep it in your dwelling
yeah there you go
man just stop yeah you know everybody's
got it rough and all the platforms i'm
not even going to say 'em he's not going
to give him the plug
oh i already did no you didn't we cut it
we just cut it
uh thank you newfoundland uh folk
festival for having us newfoundland and
labrador folk festival except whatever
platform this is on yeah
just watch music don't say uh um
the whine don't whine don't whine uh folk
arts society
everyone there all the other uh
wonderful performers
who uh who have been taking part in this
wonderful
virtual festival we are honored
to be among you
we are the once and you're amazing thank
you
the old men are proud
of the songs that they've picked humming in time when the words come unfixed
Just five Kings left, only four can turn tricks the tallow is burning
a bath for the wicks
some get it right while some make
mistakes
some hear the chorus some only the
breaks
when singing the verse through the
sips that he takes
and some close their eyes as their memories ache
a full house is five men
but very few glances
shuffle the cards and hand out the chances
one eye to the queen
while the clock still advances
And pondering time in long empty trances
stuck in  a town where your reach meets the view Where the dreams that you held were both fleeting and few
They crackle like fire on their way up the flue While each day you work, and at week's end, you're due
and it's row upon row
of the people you know and it's row
upon row
of the people you know
Stand still as a choir that hasn't yet sung
Stand still as a choir that hasn't yet sung
No head goes un-nodded
no head goes unhung
and the time to head home
is long ago has long ago come
But Courage runs
high, men are filling their lungs
The song goes around like a black vinyl tongue
A guitar in the corner, its neck left unstrung
And the girl at the bar is impossibly young
Smiling bright as the clock strikes a quarter past one
And it's Row Upon Row of the People You Know
And it's Row Upon Row of the People You Know
And it's Row Upon Row of the People You Know
Stand still as a choir that hasn't yet sung
Stand still as a choir that hasn't yet sung
Stand still as a choir that hasn't yet sung
ah ah ah ah ah
thank you thanks everyone thanks
everybody thank you
take care of yourselves thank you very much take
care of each other thanks a lot
tell your friends
that brings us to the end of our digital
folk festival
on behalf of the newfoundland and
labrador folk arts society i want to
thank you
all for tuning in i also want to say a
big thank you to equinor our presenting
sponsor
and to artsnl the government of
newfoundland and labrador
the city of st john's and the department
of canadian heritage for their support
we traditionally close out our festival
with our volunteers on stage singing the
ode to newfoundland
while we're not able to gather together
in celebration this year we hope you'll
all sing along at home with the once
we hope to see you back in the park next
year and until then stay tuned to our
channels for more great music to come
when sun rays crown thy pine clad hills And Summer spreads her hand
When silvern voices tune thy rills
We love thee smiling land
we love thee we love thee
we love thee smiling land
When spreads thy cloak of shimm'ring white
At Winter's stern command
Thro' shortened day and starlit night
We love thee frozen land
we love thee
we love thee
We love thee frozen land.
When blinding storm gusts fret thy shore
And wild waves lash thy strand
Thro' spindrift swirl and tempest roar
We love thee wind-swept land
we love thee
we love thee
we love thee windswept land
As loved our fathers, so we love
Where once they stood we stand
Their prayer we raise to heav'n above
God guard thee Newfoundland
God guard thee, God guard thee
God guard thee Newfoundland.
