Roamin' in the Gloamin' [parody]
Humourous song parodying Scottish vaudeville number, "Roamin' in the Gloamin' ", but with Newfoundland/Labrador subject matter. This is a parody, in Newfoundland/Labrador parlance, of a vaudeville song in Scottish dialect which was popularized by Sir Harry Lauder and Will Fife in...
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1987
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Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla_list/id/3955 |
Summary: | Humourous song parodying Scottish vaudeville number, "Roamin' in the Gloamin' ", but with Newfoundland/Labrador subject matter. This is a parody, in Newfoundland/Labrador parlance, of a vaudeville song in Scottish dialect which was popularized by Sir Harry Lauder and Will Fife in the early twentieth century. The collector (MS p. 9) calls it a "takeoff on a short Newfoundland poem". |
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