CANADIAN FOLK MEDLEY – (SA)

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Cypress Choral Music · Canadian Folk Medley – (SA) – arr. Janet Stachow Correia

featuring Coastal Sound Children’s Choir: Diana Clark – director

LYRICS

1. Log Driver’s Waltz

Should you ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes,
She’ll say, “I’m not sure that it’s business of yours,
But I do like to waltz with a log driver.”

Chorus
For he goes birling down, a down the white water,
That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly.
It’s birling down a down white water;
A log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.

When the drive’s nearly over, I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river.
I know that come evening they’ll be in the town,
And we all want to waltz with a log driver.

2. Red River Valley

From this valley they say you are going.
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile.
For they say you are taking the sunshine,
That has brightened our path for a while.

Chorus
Come and sit by my side if you love me;
Do not hasten to bid me adieu.
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the cowboy who loved you so true.
Won’t you think of the valley you’re leaving;

Oh how lonely, how sad it will be?
Oh think of the fond heart you’re breaking;
And the grief you are causing to me.

3. Kelligrews Soiree

You may talk of Clara Nolan’s ball or anything you choose,
But it couldn’t hold a snuffbox to the spree at Kelligrews;
If you want your eyeballs straightened just come out next week with me.
And you’ll have to wear your glasses at the Kelligrews Soiree.

There was birch wine, tar twine, cherry wine and turpentine,
Jowls and cavalances, ginger beer and tea,
Pig’s feet, cat’s meat, dumplings boiled up in a sheet,
Dandelion and crackies’ teeth at the Kelligrews Soiree.

Oh, when I arrived at Betsy Snook’s that night at half past eight,
The place was blocked with carriages, stood waiting at the gate.
With Cluney’s funnel on my pate the first words Betsy said:
“Here comes a local preacher with a pulpit on his head!”

There was Bill Mews, Dan Hughes, Wilson Taft, and Teddy Roose,
While Bryant he sat in the blues lookin’ hard at me;
Jim Fling, Tom King and Johnson champion of the ring,
And all the boxers I could bring at the Kelligrews Soiree.

I tell you boys, we had a time at the Kelligrews Soiree.
The Kelligrews Soiree! Hey!