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]
A
[Verse]
D A
My wings were blue in the ocean green
D A
The prettiest thing you've ever seen
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
Rose were my legs and rose my sides
D A
And who would have thought as I roved the tide
Bm
Where the red crab watched me scuttle and glide
D A
I would come to dance in a net?
[Verse]
D A
The fisherman stands by the water and chuckles
D A
Clams are his ears and limpets his knuckles
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
The beard of a mussel droops from his chin
D A
The scales of a mackerel cling to his skin
Bm
And his eyes roll out and his eyes roll in
D A
As he watches us dance in the net
[Verse]
D A
His eyes are hard as berries of kelp
D A
But sweet is his daughter who comes to help
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
They take the ropes in their lean brown hands
D A
And haul us out on the shine of the sands
Bm
And the girl she laughs as the fisherman stands
D A
And watches us dance in the net
[Bridge]
A A7 D D7 G
[Verse]
C F C
Let her hang up her clothes on a gooseberry bush
F C
Where the waves say 'crush' and the foam says 'hush'
G7 C
The gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The surf is red with struggle and slaughter
F C
But somewhere on earth or in sky or in water
Dm
The scaly man and his long-legged daughter
F C
Will come to dance in a net
[Instrumental]
C Dm G
[Verse]
C F C
The fishes dance to the fisherman's tune
F C
The waters run to the pull of the moon
G7 C
And the gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The air and the sand at the edge of the tide
F C
The fisherman's daughter, dancing in pride
Dm
With her rosy legs and her rosy side
F C
Is less than a fish in the net
[Bridge]
C G Am A7
[Verse]
D G D
For somewhere, glaring in wastes of space
G D
There's a terrible eye in an empty face
A7 D
The gurnet said to the catfish
G D
And round and round in the spell of that stare
G D
Flashing and slashing and biting the snare
Em
Go all the glittering shoals of the air
G D
Dancing like fish in the net
[Verse]
G D
So somebody sits in space and chuckles
G D
With hair like a comet and stars for knuckles
A7 D
The gurnet said to the catfish
G D
And glimmer of side and swirl of fin
G D
His arms are huge as he hauls them in
Em
And his teeth are sharks in a mile wide grin
G D
As he watches them dance in the net
[Bridge]
D D7 G
[Verse]
C F C
There I'm going and there go you
F C
I with my wings of butterfly blue
G7 C
The gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The moon comes by and he swallows it whole
F C
And there is the girl with wings on her soul
Dm
And now it's the fisher, and the great eyes roll
F C
As he watches them dance in the net
A
[Verse]
D A
My wings were blue in the ocean green
D A
The prettiest thing you've ever seen
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
Rose were my legs and rose my sides
D A
And who would have thought as I roved the tide
Bm
Where the red crab watched me scuttle and glide
D A
I would come to dance in a net?
[Verse]
D A
The fisherman stands by the water and chuckles
D A
Clams are his ears and limpets his knuckles
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
The beard of a mussel droops from his chin
D A
The scales of a mackerel cling to his skin
Bm
And his eyes roll out and his eyes roll in
D A
As he watches us dance in the net
[Verse]
D A
His eyes are hard as berries of kelp
D A
But sweet is his daughter who comes to help
E7 A
The gurnet said to the catfish
D A
They take the ropes in their lean brown hands
D A
And haul us out on the shine of the sands
Bm
And the girl she laughs as the fisherman stands
D A
And watches us dance in the net
[Bridge]
A A7 D D7 G
[Verse]
C F C
Let her hang up her clothes on a gooseberry bush
F C
Where the waves say 'crush' and the foam says 'hush'
G7 C
The gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The surf is red with struggle and slaughter
F C
But somewhere on earth or in sky or in water
Dm
The scaly man and his long-legged daughter
F C
Will come to dance in a net
[Instrumental]
C Dm G
[Verse]
C F C
The fishes dance to the fisherman's tune
F C
The waters run to the pull of the moon
G7 C
And the gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The air and the sand at the edge of the tide
F C
The fisherman's daughter, dancing in pride
Dm
With her rosy legs and her rosy side
F C
Is less than a fish in the net
[Bridge]
C G Am A7
[Verse]
D G D
For somewhere, glaring in wastes of space
G D
There's a terrible eye in an empty face
A7 D
The gurnet said to the catfish
G D
And round and round in the spell of that stare
G D
Flashing and slashing and biting the snare
Em
Go all the glittering shoals of the air
G D
Dancing like fish in the net
[Verse]
G D
So somebody sits in space and chuckles
G D
With hair like a comet and stars for knuckles
A7 D
The gurnet said to the catfish
G D
And glimmer of side and swirl of fin
G D
His arms are huge as he hauls them in
Em
And his teeth are sharks in a mile wide grin
G D
As he watches them dance in the net
[Bridge]
D D7 G
[Verse]
C F C
There I'm going and there go you
F C
I with my wings of butterfly blue
G7 C
The gurnet said to the catfish
F C
The moon comes by and he swallows it whole
F C
And there is the girl with wings on her soul
Dm
And now it's the fisher, and the great eyes roll
F C
As he watches them dance in the net
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