The Gallant Brigantine

A song about a sailor, Harry Rice. Rice is sitting on the beach in Jamaica when a beautiful, innocent young woman approaches him. He tells her he is from Newfoundland and has left a wife and a child in St. John's. The girl takes him to the home of a whaler man; the three eat and drink and spend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keough, Willeen Gertrude, Furlong, Mary Frances
Other Authors: Hughes, Ronald "Mr. Ron", Bold, Valentina
Language:unknown
Published: 1988
Subjects:
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla_list/id/1549
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Summary:A song about a sailor, Harry Rice. Rice is sitting on the beach in Jamaica when a beautiful, innocent young woman approaches him. He tells her he is from Newfoundland and has left a wife and a child in St. John's. The girl takes him to the home of a whaler man; the three eat and drink and spend "a jolly afternoon" together. see Leach, MacEdward, "Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast." Ottawa: National Museum of Man p. 224 "Jamaica Girl"; Creighton, Helen, "Maritime Folk Songs." Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1961, p. 142 "The Gallant Brigantine".

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