#stan rogers

[future-crab]

People who insist on changing the pronouns in songs while they’re singing along are so weak. “But I’m not gay!” Okay?? And I’m not a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s Privateers, but for the length of this song I can be.

[whumpster-fire]

Stan Rogers Songs Categorized By Status Of The Boat

Northwest Passage: The Boat(s) sank a long time ago.

Barrett's Privateers: The Boat sank. It was a terrible boat anyway.

The Flowers Of Bermuda: The Boat sank.

Rolling Down To Old Maui: The Boat didn't sink.

Take It From Day To Day: The Boat didn't sink.

Bluenose: The Boat didn't sink.

White Squall: The Boat didn't sink, but somebody fell off.

The Mary Ellen Carter: The Boat sank, but goddamnit we're gonna unsink it!

Man With Blue Dolphin: The Boat sank again. This poor fool is going to waste his money unsinking it again. What an idiot. This boat is a piece of junk.

The Last Watch: The Boat didn't sink, but it's being broken up for scrap.

The Wreck of the Athens Queen: The Boat sank! Hooray, free stuff for us! (Also we almost sank the boat we used to grab stuff off the boat that sank because we were all drunk)

The Idiot: There are no boats in Edmonton or wherever. This sucks.

[lucybellwood]

Working on something for all you Stan Rogers stans

[emilybeemartin]

"And wet rose she from the lake

And fast and fleet went she---

One half the form of a maiden fair

With a jet-black mare's body."

-The Witch of the Westmorland, Stan Rogers

[ofhedgehogsandpumpkins]

Gimme your best Northwest Passage memes, fuck it up like it's 1845.

[victusinveritas]

[sonofcelluloid]

Captain Crozier’s severed hand in unloveable hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

[technofinch]

[lilaccatholic]

Who up ready to just one time take the Northwest Passage

[spineless-lobster]

Are you fucking kidding me right now?! I was told we’d cruise the seas for american gold, that we’d fire no guns AND shed no tears, but NOW I’m a broken man on a halifax pier, the LAST of barrett’s FUCKING privateers!!! Honest to god the nerve of some people

[chiropteracupola]

i was told we'd cruise the seas for american gold, fire no guns shed no tears &c, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt

[despazito]

[whumpster-fire]

Recently I've become obsessed with "The Last Saskactchwewan Pirate" after some glorious individual recommended it on that one post I made about Stan Rogers songs, but only just now did I realize the incredible comedic juxtaposition it has with "The Idiot."

One song is about a working class guy from somewhere in Eastern Canada but I'm gonna say somewhere near the Great Lakes or Atlantic because it's funnier, who loses his job in a recession but he's too proud to go on welfare so he moves to the prairies and gets a crappy job at an oil refinery that he hates.

The other song is about a working class guy from the Canadian Prairies who loses his farm in a recession and can't get a job but he's too proud to go on welfare so he... becomes a fucking pirate. And remains on the Canadian Prairies having the time of his life (except for winter when he goes down to New Mexico

I cannot stop giggling about the idea of the protagonists of these two songs meeting. Imagining the guy in "The Idiot" commuting home from his crappy job after another overnight shift when he sees a fucking pirate ship cruising down the river blasting sea shanties, and thinking that maybe he chose the wrong line of work.

And then he joins the crew

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Ships :

Round 1 Part 4 Poll 5

Description for the Argo : Jason and the argonauts sailed this ship

Propaganda for the Argo : It's like, the og fictional ship. Transported Jason and his bros to get a Golden Fleece and they brought back also Medea who then murdered her and Jason’s kids. Legend

Description for the Antelope : Sloop. From the song's lyrics : "the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen" "a sickening sight" "a list to the port & her sails in rags".

Propaganda for the Antelope : She an iconic mess

[emilybeemartin]

"I'll sing you a song," this fair maid did cry.

The captain was weeping for joy, oh

She sang it so sweetly, so soft and completely

She sang captain and sailors to sleep, oh

Captain and sailors to sleep.

She robbed them of jewels, she robbed them of wealth,

She robbed them of costly fine fare, oh.

The captain's broadsword she used as an oar

And she rowed her way back to the shore, shore, shore,

She rowed her way back to the shore.

-"The Maid on the Shore," as sung by Solas, though I like the Stan Rogers version, too.

For my senior project in high school, I illustrated this song into a picture book. I always liked it because it's one of the few folk songs where a girl outwits a group of men who want her and still manages to have a happy ending.

[boatmediatourney]

🚢Boat Song Tournament🚢

Round 5A, match 1

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