Biography:
Gordon Bok stands out among the various artists that can be lumped into the "Traditional Folk" category. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to Camden, Maine and it was there in coastal Maine that Bok was influenced by sea-faring culture and its music. He released his first album in 1965 and in 1970 signed to Folk-Legacy records, where he released a number of solo albums, as well as many collaborations with Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett. In 1990 he began releasing music on his own label, Timberhead Music.
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Other songs:
- A Little Road And A Stone To Roll
- A Most Unpleasant Way Sir
- A Song For Angela
- A Tune For November
- All My Sailors
- Along The Famine Road
- An Diran Than Soulder
- Another Bay
- Apples In The Basket
- Astoria Bar
- Banks Of The Reedy Lagoon
- Bare
- Bay Of Fundy
- Belamena
- Bheir Me O
- Blackbird
- Boat Of Silver
- Bold Reynolds
- Broken Down Squatter
- Candlelight Fisherman
- Cannery Shed
- Canso Strait
- Cape Ann
- Changing Times
- Clear Away In The Morning
- Come By The Hills
- Connemara Cradle Song
- Coshieville
- Crossing The Water
- Dillon Bay
- Do Something
- Dublin City
- Duna
- Duncan And Brady
- Easy And Slow
- Faraway Tom
- Farewell To Nova Scotia
- Fiddler Of Dooney
- Frankie On The Sheepscot
- Freedom On The Wallaby
- Get Her Into Shore
- Going On
- Handsome Cabin Boy
- Hang On John
- Harp Song Of The Dane Women
- Herring Croon
- Hie Awa
- High Barbary
- Johnny Stewart Drover
- Shearers Lament
- Song For The Mira
- Song Of The Wheelhouse Door
- Southern Cross
- Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home
- Stone On Stone
- Stormy Weather
- Sufferin
- Swell Me Net Full
- The Angelus
- The Arbutus
- The Beaches Of Lukannon
- The Bird Rock
- The Boats Of Peters River
- The Brandy Tree
- The Bressay Lullaby
- The Kind Land
- The Last Battle
- The Liza Jane
- The Maiden Hind
- The Maiden In Birds Plumage
- The Net
- The Old Bard Song
- The Old Figurehead Carver
- The Parting Glass
- The Sands Of Dee
- The Shepherds Call
- The Stable Lad
- The Swag And The Shiner
- The Texas Song
- The Wreck Of The Green Cove
- These Dry Stone Walls
- This Old Mandolin
- Threeboot Philbricks Lament
- Tie Her Up
- Travelling People
- Trochus Boats
- Turn Ye To Me
- Turning Toward The Morning
- Waiting For The Rain
- Weary Of The Darning
- Weevily Wheat Wheat In The Ear
- Western Boat
- Where Am I To Go
- Wiscasset Schooners
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[Intro]
F Bb F F7
[Verse]
Bb C F
Frankie braids the purse-string, Cleon sets the tow
Bb C
Frankie goes to pick them over in the well
Bb F
He's never got a hat on, and the snow is all about him
Bb F
And it packs around his head like his own skin
[Verse]
Bb F
"Don't I hate this foolish river!", Frankie cries
Bb C
"Up and down her like a yo-yo on a string
F Bb C
Go out in the morning and tear up
Bb F
Mend all your afternoon
Bb F F7
And all this dirty river staving by"
[Verse]
Bb
Ah, but boys, you should have seen him
F
Wearing the snow as you would wear your hair
Bb F
Singing, "It's a hard life for a boy on the gut"
Bb C
He's got the words wrong, but he doesn't seem to care
Bb C F
And the seagulls working easy out behind him
[Verse]
Bb
Cleon slides the hatch back, and he shouts down
F
"Boys, we're anchored"
Bb C
And you set your coffee down and you go on deck
Bb F
But the river's humping by so fast, the snow's so flying thick
Bb F
You can't tell if she's moving or lying still
[Verse]
Bb F
"Don't I hate this foolish river!", Frankie cries
Bb C
"Up and down her like a yo-yo on a string
F Bb C
Go out in the morning and tear up
Bb F
Mend all your afternoon
Bb F F7
And all this poor old river going by"
[Verse]
Bb C F
Cleon winds the wheel and he cracks the power to her
Bb C
And she pokes her head around, but she doesn't turn
Bb
And he takes her out of gear
F
While Frankie goes to try to haul back
Bb F
He says, "I guess we've hooked the dear old State of Maine"
[Verse]
Bb
Ah, but boys, you should have seen him
F C
Hour after hour, Cleon on that old wheel
F Bb C
There's nothing out there but hard times
Bb F
Time and the flying snow
Bb F
And all that pretty river rolling by
[Verse]
Bb
Oh, but boys it makes me wonder
F C
Hour after hour, Cleon on that old wheel
F Bb C
There's nothing to see but hard times
Bb F
Time and the flying snow
Bb F Bb F Bb F
But Cleon watches day and night and day
F Bb F F7
[Verse]
Bb C F
Frankie braids the purse-string, Cleon sets the tow
Bb C
Frankie goes to pick them over in the well
Bb F
He's never got a hat on, and the snow is all about him
Bb F
And it packs around his head like his own skin
[Verse]
Bb F
"Don't I hate this foolish river!", Frankie cries
Bb C
"Up and down her like a yo-yo on a string
F Bb C
Go out in the morning and tear up
Bb F
Mend all your afternoon
Bb F F7
And all this dirty river staving by"
[Verse]
Bb
Ah, but boys, you should have seen him
F
Wearing the snow as you would wear your hair
Bb F
Singing, "It's a hard life for a boy on the gut"
Bb C
He's got the words wrong, but he doesn't seem to care
Bb C F
And the seagulls working easy out behind him
[Verse]
Bb
Cleon slides the hatch back, and he shouts down
F
"Boys, we're anchored"
Bb C
And you set your coffee down and you go on deck
Bb F
But the river's humping by so fast, the snow's so flying thick
Bb F
You can't tell if she's moving or lying still
[Verse]
Bb F
"Don't I hate this foolish river!", Frankie cries
Bb C
"Up and down her like a yo-yo on a string
F Bb C
Go out in the morning and tear up
Bb F
Mend all your afternoon
Bb F F7
And all this poor old river going by"
[Verse]
Bb C F
Cleon winds the wheel and he cracks the power to her
Bb C
And she pokes her head around, but she doesn't turn
Bb
And he takes her out of gear
F
While Frankie goes to try to haul back
Bb F
He says, "I guess we've hooked the dear old State of Maine"
[Verse]
Bb
Ah, but boys, you should have seen him
F C
Hour after hour, Cleon on that old wheel
F Bb C
There's nothing out there but hard times
Bb F
Time and the flying snow
Bb F
And all that pretty river rolling by
[Verse]
Bb
Oh, but boys it makes me wonder
F C
Hour after hour, Cleon on that old wheel
F Bb C
There's nothing to see but hard times
Bb F
Time and the flying snow
Bb F Bb F Bb F
But Cleon watches day and night and day
Gorgon City
Gori & Nekro
Goribor
Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Zoe
Got
Gotan Project
Goth Babe
Gotham Road
Gottlieb Wendeha (...)