I know! That song would inevitably come up when I was up late at night writing papers and it'd make me go wibbly :(
Ooo favourite Stan Rogers song... Mary Ellen Carter is up there. It embodies the stubborn perseverance that is characteristic to a lot of the east coast music ("To you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow..."). There's a lot of music on the theme of "Farm/boat/mine/factory/job market has disappeared but fuck you" and it got me through a lot of teenage angst.
But I also like the sentiment of 45 Years, and tone of The Giant and how you can hear the waves in White Squall, and the "Pounds his fist white on the dock in the night and cries I'm gonna win!" of Blue Dolphin, and the combination of the joy and the loss in Bluenose, and the way "Last Watch makes me cry when he sings "When men with torches come for her, let angels come for me" and the first Christmas I don't go home I know I'm going to sit there and listen to "First Christmas".
Plus I live on the East Coast so Barrett's Privateers is just a given :) (I had a friend who was a counciller at a Christian kids camp where they sang that song aroudn the campfire, except being a Christian camp "God damn them all" isn't entirely appropriate. They changed the lyrics to "Have a nice day." I just... can't imagine getting through that with a straight face)
eta: (because I would have sworn I typed it) what about you?
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Ooo favourite Stan Rogers song... Mary Ellen Carter is up there. It embodies the stubborn perseverance that is characteristic to a lot of the east coast music ("To you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow..."). There's a lot of music on the theme of "Farm/boat/mine/factory/job market has disappeared but fuck you" and it got me through a lot of teenage angst.
But I also like the sentiment of 45 Years, and tone of The Giant and how you can hear the waves in White Squall, and the "Pounds his fist white on the dock in the night and cries I'm gonna win!" of Blue Dolphin, and the combination of the joy and the loss in Bluenose, and the way "Last Watch makes me cry when he sings "When men with torches come for her, let angels come for me" and the first Christmas I don't go home I know I'm going to sit there and listen to "First Christmas".
Plus I live on the East Coast so Barrett's Privateers is just a given :)
(I had a friend who was a counciller at a Christian kids camp where they sang that song aroudn the campfire, except being a Christian camp "God damn them all" isn't entirely appropriate. They changed the lyrics to "Have a nice day." I just... can't imagine getting through that with a straight face)
eta: (because I would have sworn I typed it) what about you?