Filipino here, now I'm not from the Newfoundland nor am I British. But I find the spirit of this song is quite universal. People journeying to new lands, risking everything in search of a better life as well as to provide for their families at home. This song hits close to home for me, as a son of a Seaman. My father has to work most of the year on the tides and only coming to shore for a short period. Thank you for everything dad. It's your sacrifices why we live a good life . I'll make it up to you, one day.
Great song, pulls at the heartstrings. Born on an island, I come from a long line of people who left home in search of a better life. Most of my ancestors fished at one time or other.
“And when, at last, .... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.” P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story
Songs like these are what make me truly proud to be a Newfoundlander. I might not be a fisherman, but I can see the ocean from my window, the same ocean that my Grandfather fished in and his before he. Nothing grander than seeing the mighty waves crash upon the rocky shore, with great eagles flying above and great whales frolicking below. I love living on the rock.
One of the very best songs from Fortune's Favour and from Sean McCann because it came from his heart and soul. He noted that he wrote it in North Carolina while thinking of his own family so far away, and realized how the first immigrants to Newfoundland must have felt centuries ago, never knowing if they would ever get to say goodbye.
Robert Kimmel When I signed up for OCS, Rhode Island (I got DQ’d, but that’s alright) all the old salts at MEPS referred to Great Lakes as “Great Mistakes”.
I was born in England, but live in Canada now. This makes me think of all the people who just packed up their stuff with their families and got on a boat, not really knowing what was on the other side when they got there. No way of seeing or hearing from most of your friends and remaining family again...wow. Love Newfies by the way.
I like how people feel proud for living in the area of newfoundland, yet little to none have anything to do working on the sea. It;s not where you live, it's what you do.
@Detano2 technically the vikings were the first to sail to the new world. hence the name "New found land" for Newfoundland. but yes england was a major colonizing power back in the day.
@agenstmileyhaters why do you defend miley, shes only famous because her dad is famous. and btw, i dont like soccer nor am i from England, but without England america wouldn't be the way it is today. anyone country could build a boat and sail to a new land, its just that England got there first. so if you insult England, you insult yourself.
@agenstmileyhaters you're right, like buy a Lamborghini, make it all wheel drive, put a lift kit on it, put off road tires on it, and go dune riding in the Sahara desert. but only Bam Margera would do something like that, do you watch Viva La Bam and Jackass?
Mind you, this is a very pretty song. I've fairly recently gotten into the music of another Canadian artist, though: Jeremy Dutcher, who won the Polaris a few years back, and JESUS CHRIST is he talented, not to mention very beautiful. But he's also Indigenous, so I wonder what he'd think of a song like this?
I'm 0/3 newfie, but love GBS just the same after visiting newfoundland and doing the initiation challenge (singing GBS song, drinking wine, and kissing a puffins butt).
@agenstmileyhaters well if ur, as your user name says, "against miley haters", then you fail, there is just as many miley haters out there as there is justin beiber haters, and trust me, the number of beiber haters are off the chart. (supposing someone was stupid enough to make a chart based on imposable numbers)
The disease we took there is to blame for that, 95% of Native American population killed by them within 100 years of us getting there, they did allegedly give us syphills though thanks for that
Filipino here, now I'm not from the Newfoundland nor am I British. But I find the spirit of this song is quite universal. People journeying to new lands, risking everything in search of a better life as well as to provide for their families at home. This song hits close to home for me, as a son of a Seaman. My father has to work most of the year on the tides and only coming to shore for a short period. Thank you for everything dad. It's your sacrifices why we live a good life . I'll make it up to you, one day.
Good man!
Mabuhay!
Great song, pulls at the heartstrings. Born on an island, I come from a long line of people who left home in search of a better life. Most of my ancestors fished at one time or other.
Canadian living in UK here. Canada to England will always be special.
Brit living in Canada here.
@@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102 Born in Dorset and you? Moved to Canada when I was 3.
@@johnnyenglish9622 Reading and London. Now living in Ottawa
@@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102 We did a reverse mate. go Ottawa Senators!
@@johnnyenglish9622how are the sens doing for you this season
This song is just…so beautiful…I can’t stop shedding tears
Seen these guys live last night and they were amazing. Best show ever
Proud to be associated with Canada
Respect from UK
Proud to be associated with you too. God Save the Queen.
But get out of Ireland
Egrith We're not in Ireland.
i mean the UK, Canada is fine
Egrith I am in the UK
“And when, at last, .... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.” P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story
All English Folkies have a soft spot for this tune it seems...myself included =)
Songs like these are what make me truly proud to be a Newfoundlander. I might not be a fisherman, but I can see the ocean from my window, the same ocean that my Grandfather fished in and his before he.
Nothing grander than seeing the mighty waves crash upon the rocky shore, with great eagles flying above and great whales frolicking below.
I love living on the rock.
“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.” ― Thomas Moore
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WOW,WOW, what a beautiful and touching song, i listen to it over and over : this is real music!!!!!
I love this song... My dad is from Newfoundland and my mom is from England!:)
same
I am from Newfoundland
@@angelinaballerina742 what area ?
@@johncoombs9718 burin peninsula
One of the very best songs from Fortune's Favour and from Sean McCann because it came from his heart and soul. He noted that he wrote it in North Carolina while thinking of his own family so far away, and realized how the first immigrants to Newfoundland must have felt centuries ago, never knowing if they would ever get to say goodbye.
I'm just some Korean dude living in the US, and I'm loving this song. I found it purely by accident. XD
HyperDavidovich being a Newfie boy living in Montreal, I feels ya by its truly hard being away from home.
For some reason me and my shipmate got our division to sing this our last night at RTC Great Lakes it was amazing
Robert Kimmel When I signed up for OCS, Rhode Island (I got DQ’d, but that’s alright) all the old salts at MEPS referred to Great Lakes as “Great Mistakes”.
This song makes me so sad. Imagine being so far from home and longing for England.
I was born in England, but live in Canada now. This makes me think of all the people who just packed up their stuff with their families and got on a boat, not really knowing what was on the other side when they got there. No way of seeing or hearing from most of your friends and remaining family again...wow. Love Newfies by the way.
Looking west from Liverpool right now, resect to our last generations, we walk in your foot steps.
my niece who's father's family's from Newfoundland and is a fisherman makes me sing this to her all the time
I have to agree. The song is amazing an the boys are so great!
I LOVE this song!
A fine song in the maritime tradition - I will look out the CD as I sing with Kent based shanty crew ' Swinging the Lead ' .
Love this song.
i wish i was from newfoundland, i love Canada i have only ben there once but i love it there. rock on Canada !
love the song reminds me how proud I m to be a newfie even when I live in toronto
Saw these in 2002 when i was based at GOOSE BAY. NEWFOUNDLAND
No words, just memories
I'm part English too!
It's just too beautiful
Love the low D whistle in it :)
Another brilliant album.
lovely song thanks......
Iggys song..... yay Arthur Kirkland
I found someone who understands
Empress of Weird I remember watching a episode of hetalia when I was 6 and know I watch hetalia. I'm American but I'm also a mutt. I'm Irish.
I knew when I saw this song I'd see a Hetalia comment
awesome song nice and slow
cant wait till i can see all of Canada ( i'm CANADIAN and proud of it) i wanna see the rest of Canada so much
Beautiful!
Amen,Sister!
god damn i love this song so much
This song is up there with Rant & Roar and Ordinary Day.
I like how people feel proud for living in the area of newfoundland, yet little to none have anything to do working on the sea. It;s not where you live, it's what you do.
I'm watching this in Leeds about 54 miles from the shores of England, So not that far
i,m english and i love this song.
my mom's last name is Puddister, I'm part Newfoundlander, love GBS!
I live in souther Ontario I recomed come to Ontario right now
this song is good !
goosebumps
I almost cried this song always makes me sad but it's also a great song. Big fan of Hetalia.
@Detano2 technically the vikings were the first to sail to the new world. hence the name
"New found land" for Newfoundland. but yes england was a major colonizing power back in the day.
like this story of the Titanic in April of 1912
It time for peace
Respect to NFLD from Cape Breton Island
This is so lovely! If you still want requests, could you find us some more English-sounding ballad-sounding songs?
It's things like this that make me glad to be an "accidental Canadian" (a Montannan who was born across the border).
This made me a bit sad, thinking of people far from home.
Ehhh. . im Novascotian
Friday, July 10th, 11:32 PM, 2020
@luvalotbaybee holy shit, ur lucky, i subscribe to you because of that
epic !
Sad song
@jmacgft are you kiding??? being a newfoundlander is fuckin awsome, i may be only 1/3 newfie, but i feel as if im pure.
ROCK ON GBS!!!
@Detano2 and btw, her dad was famous before the show even started, he's a country singer. (that sucks ass)
@agenstmileyhaters dose that mean, "i"m not a disney fan" or "no, i am a disney fan"?
@JeremyHill89
Sure, if that makes you happy, believe that.
I wish I was a Newfoundlander...
@agenstmileyhaters why do you defend miley, shes only famous because her dad is famous. and btw, i dont like soccer nor am i from England, but without England america wouldn't be the way it is today. anyone country could build a boat and sail to a new land, its just that England got there first. so if you insult England, you insult yourself.
@agenstmileyhaters you're right, like buy a Lamborghini, make it all wheel drive, put a lift kit on it, put off road tires on it, and go dune riding in the Sahara desert. but only Bam Margera would do something like that, do you watch Viva La Bam and Jackass?
to all you people saying "im a newfie" have a bita respect for your self and try being a newfoundlander
Mind you, this is a very pretty song. I've fairly recently gotten into the music of another Canadian artist, though: Jeremy Dutcher, who won the Polaris a few years back, and JESUS CHRIST is he talented, not to mention very beautiful. But he's also Indigenous, so I wonder what he'd think of a song like this?
sean is a goof
I envy all newfoundlanders
Yo, I am from Newfoundland. LOL
Same here
woud all you people think that this would be a good song to preform on Canada day
Lyrical correction: its "in the new found land", not "In Newfoundland"
no I am Canadian it's Newfoundland
Damn, i guess my ears are just horrible
I know the band as well so I know the lyrics perfectly.
"the" new-found-land. Just listen to Sean's pronunciation...you have it right, Egrith
I am friends with the band and they pronounce it as three words but its actually one word.
cabbot found newfoundland
I'm 0/3 newfie, but love GBS just the same after visiting newfoundland and doing the initiation challenge (singing GBS song, drinking wine, and kissing a puffins butt).
Barqersbite you mean kissing the cod and taking a shot of screech?
@luvalotbaybee dude all newfies are related lol.
@agenstmileyhaters well if ur, as your user name says, "against miley haters", then you fail, there is just as many miley haters out there as there is justin beiber haters, and trust me, the number of beiber haters are off the chart. (supposing someone was stupid enough to make a chart based on imposable numbers)
That's what I meant :P But I was little and they made me kiss a stuffed puffin's butt lol
@agenstmileyhaters I'm not from England
One comment here: The first letter proper nouns have to be capitalized.
this sounds like celtic thunder, not great big sea
@agenstmileyhaters I'm not brtish
Just leave out the part the British killed all the natives LoL
The disease we took there is to blame for that, 95% of Native American population killed by them within 100 years of us getting there, they did allegedly give us syphills though thanks for that
Its about the migrants.
Doubt it they mention Newfoundland and cod, it's probably about fishermen
+codealamode101 it's about the people who migrated to Newfoundland from England
Nóra Molnár the new found land not Newfoundland it means the Americas
Koppy The Elf Nope, Its a Newfie Song, Carbonear is a place in Newfoundland, and Newfie is a island, so it's about Newfoundland.
@@codealamode1016 Yes, i know. But I think all people could feel like this, who need to left their home
lies
@agenstmileyhaters how do you know if i do or don't ? and i dont even like the shit that they sing
Yay colonialism...?
NO!