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]
C G C G
[Verse]
C D7 G
When I was a lad, well, I made up me mind
F C G
That I didn't belong to the labouring kind
F G C F
Me hands were too good and me body too fine
C D7 G G7
And me brain, sure it was even finer
C F G
That to spoil them by working, it seemed such a shame
C F G
So, I learned all I could of this wayfarin' game
C F G
By way of Australia, to New Zealand came
C G C G C G
And hurrah for the swag and the shiner
[Verse]
C D7 G
Now some folks drink tea, but water's less risky
F C G
And with some it's the sherry or beer makes them frisky
F G C F
But give me the Irish and Jamieson's whiskey
C D7 G G7
The warmest and best stomach liner
C F G
And many's the infamous trick I've conceived
C F G
And many's the barman that's gladly believed them
C F G
Of many free whiskies, I've often relieved them
C G C G C G
Hurrah for the swag and the shiner
[Verse]
C D7 G
One day as I tramped with my mate, Gypsie Lee
F C G
He looks down at the road, "A dead sparrow," says he
F G C F
"That's a skylark," says I, "And a free drink for me
C D7 G G7
If you'll follow the scam of the Shiner"
C F G
"At the next pub we come to," I says, "You wait outside
C F G
But, stand by the door with your ears open wide
C F G
And at the right moment, you comes right inside
C G C G C G
But, you don't know the swag or the shiner"
[Verse]
C D7 G
Well, at the next shanty, I swear it's a lark
F C G
"That's a sparrow" the barman was heard to remark
F G C F
Says I, "I'm so sharp I can tell in the dark
C D7 G G7
The difference 'tween Magpies and Minahs"
C F G
"Well, I'll wager a drink all around then" says he
C F G
"That the next man comes in here, a sparrow will see"
C F G
So in comes old Gyp, "Hey, a skylark" says he
C G C G C G
"Free drinks for meself and the shiner"
[Verse]
C D7 G
Tall houses and mansions, I let them all be
F C G
For it's certain that working each day, ain't for me
F G C F
On the road with me swag, every day I am free
C D7 G G7
And I pity the navvy and miner
C F G
Now, some folks don't like me, they think I'm a nut
C F G
And, some say I'm lazy 'cause I like the shortcut
C F G
But a regular job keeps a man in a rut
C G C
So hurrah for the swag and the shiner
C G C G
[Verse]
C D7 G
When I was a lad, well, I made up me mind
F C G
That I didn't belong to the labouring kind
F G C F
Me hands were too good and me body too fine
C D7 G G7
And me brain, sure it was even finer
C F G
That to spoil them by working, it seemed such a shame
C F G
So, I learned all I could of this wayfarin' game
C F G
By way of Australia, to New Zealand came
C G C G C G
And hurrah for the swag and the shiner
[Verse]
C D7 G
Now some folks drink tea, but water's less risky
F C G
And with some it's the sherry or beer makes them frisky
F G C F
But give me the Irish and Jamieson's whiskey
C D7 G G7
The warmest and best stomach liner
C F G
And many's the infamous trick I've conceived
C F G
And many's the barman that's gladly believed them
C F G
Of many free whiskies, I've often relieved them
C G C G C G
Hurrah for the swag and the shiner
[Verse]
C D7 G
One day as I tramped with my mate, Gypsie Lee
F C G
He looks down at the road, "A dead sparrow," says he
F G C F
"That's a skylark," says I, "And a free drink for me
C D7 G G7
If you'll follow the scam of the Shiner"
C F G
"At the next pub we come to," I says, "You wait outside
C F G
But, stand by the door with your ears open wide
C F G
And at the right moment, you comes right inside
C G C G C G
But, you don't know the swag or the shiner"
[Verse]
C D7 G
Well, at the next shanty, I swear it's a lark
F C G
"That's a sparrow" the barman was heard to remark
F G C F
Says I, "I'm so sharp I can tell in the dark
C D7 G G7
The difference 'tween Magpies and Minahs"
C F G
"Well, I'll wager a drink all around then" says he
C F G
"That the next man comes in here, a sparrow will see"
C F G
So in comes old Gyp, "Hey, a skylark" says he
C G C G C G
"Free drinks for meself and the shiner"
[Verse]
C D7 G
Tall houses and mansions, I let them all be
F C G
For it's certain that working each day, ain't for me
F G C F
On the road with me swag, every day I am free
C D7 G G7
And I pity the navvy and miner
C F G
Now, some folks don't like me, they think I'm a nut
C F G
And, some say I'm lazy 'cause I like the shortcut
C F G
But a regular job keeps a man in a rut
C G C
So hurrah for the swag and the shiner
Gorgon City
Gori & Nekro
Goribor
Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Zoe
Got
Gotan Project
Goth Babe
Gotham Road
Gottlieb Wendeha (...)