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So, this morning I woke up and literally my first thought upon waking was, "I want to go home." I will note that I was lying in my own bed in my own bedroom in my own house at the time.

Also, while on my dinner break just now, I was listening to my ipod on shuffle while knitting and Cape St Mary's came on and I kinda burst into tears a little.

Saudade freaking sucks sometimes, you guys.

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So, instead of continuing to feel vaguely depressed, I decided to spend the evening listening to Stan Rogers songs that are not Cape St Mary's. Which I will now share with you because a) if you know at least one Stan Rogers song, obviously you would like to learn more and b) if you don't know any Stan Rogers songs, that is sad and must be rectified. So here are a bunch.

The "rocking out" (insofar as that is possible with maritime folk music) section!


• Barrett's Privateers - I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold, we'd fire no guns, shed no tears. Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's privateers.
  I highly recommend shouting the lyrics to this song while driving in your car with the windows down.
  
  
• Acadian Saturday Night - And oh, don't the fiddle make you roll? Your heart, she will pound like a hammer. There's a fat lady beating the piano like a drum and everybody's higher than a kite on Acadian Saturday night.
  
  
  
  Songs that are not particularly about boats!
  
  
• Giant - The wind's in the north - there'll be new moon tonight and we have no circle to dance in her sight. But light a torch, bring the bottle, and build the fire bright. The giant will rise with the moon!
  
  
• The Witch of the Westmorelands - This is very much a story song, so quoting the lyrics out of context doesn't work as well. But it's great - there's a wounded knight and and talking animals and a quest to find a witch who turns out to be a shapeshifting centaur lady. So that's pretty cool.
  
  
• Scarborough Settler's Lament - Away wi' Canada's muddy creeks and Canada's fields of pine. Your land of wheat is a goodly land, but oh, it is not mine.
  
  
  
  Songs involving boats and/or fishing! (Warning: mostly sad. There aren't that many happy songs about fishing, to be honest. Or, if there are, I don't know them.)
  
  
• The Maid on the Shore - In which a young maiden is, essentially, kidnapped by sailors but manages to trick them, steal all their stuff, and go back to living all by herself on the shore. She is pretty awesome.
  
  
• Make and Break Harbour - In Make and Break Harbour, the boats are so few. Too many are holed up and rotten. Most houses stand empty, old nets hung to dry are blown away, lost, and forgotten.
  
  
• Tiny Fish for Japan - So the days run together, each one is the same. And it's good that the smelt have no lovelier name. For it's all just a job now - we'll work while we can...
  
  
• The Jeannie C. - Come all you lads, draw near to me, that I be not forsaken. This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken. I'll go to sea no more.
  
  
• Three Fishers - For men must work and women must weep, though the storms be sudden and the waters be deep.
  
  
  
  Songs that are really very Canadian!
  
  
• Flying - This is a song about hockey. It is, in fact, the only song about hockey that I know. That alone would be pretty cool but also, it's quite a good song.
  
  
• MacDonnell on the Heights - To say the name MacDonnell, it would bring no bugle call. But the redcoats stayed beside you when they saw the general fall. 'Twas MacDonnell raised the banner then and set the Heights aflame.
  
  
• Northwest Passage - Ah, for just one time, I would take the Northwest Passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea. Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage and make the Northwest Passage to the sea.
  All of the Due South fans out there are already singing along, right?
  
  
  
  I know we had songs about boats before but these are the two best songs about boats I know and thus deserve their own section!
  
  
• The Bluenose - And does she not take wing like a living thing, child of the moving tide? See her pass with grace on the water's face with clean and quiet pride. Our own tall ship of great renown still lifts unto the sky.
  
  
• The Mary Ellen Carter - And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow, with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go, turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain and, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!
  This is not only a great song about a boat, it is always one of the best songs I know, period.
  

Obviously, you are welcome to pick and choose the songs you find most interesting, but if you want to download them all at once, here is a link.