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RYANS AND PITTMANS
(We'll rant and we'll roar)
​

Beginner                       BA1 - Unit 2        (Practice) Song-Melody

Tune:  Traditional sea shanty, prior to 1770, with English Lyrics (Spanish Ladies)
Adapted with Newfoundland Lyrics by Henry W. LeMessurier (Ryans & Pittmans)
Adapted with Australian Lyrics by Saul Mendelsohn (Brisbane Ladies)

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COMMENT:  We normally think of words like "roar" and "when" as single-syllable words, but such
                      words sometimes get stretched in singing to more easily accommodate ​multiple
                      musical notes.  To make this point clearer, I've placed a hyphen ( - ) in the middle
                      of two such words in line 1 (ro-ar) and line 4 (Wh-en) in the chorus below.

Chorus:

  .5      .6     .6      .6      .6  .7*       .7     .8*    .7*     .6     .6*   .5~   
We'll  rant  and  we'll     ro-ar       like  true  New-found-land-ers

   .5       .7*    .7*    .7*    :7*      .7      .8*    .7     .7*   .::8  
We'll    rant  and  we'll  roar    on    deck  and   be  -  low 

 .7   .8   .8    .8    .7   .6     .7    .8*    .7*  .6     .6*      :5    
Un - til  we  see  bot-tom   in - side the  two  sunk - ers


 :8 .8*       .7          .7*       .7        .8*   .7*   .6     .6*    .5*    .6*    :6~      
Wh-en  straight  through  the    Chan-nel   to    Tos - low  we'll   go.  /

​​


The verses follow the same melody (and notation) as the chorus above.

Embedded youTube VIDEOS
Eight videos - in Keys of:   A=1    C=2    D=2   G=3

​Key:  A
​
Tempo:  ~195 bpm

Group:   Ryan's Fancy

Posted by: quickaccent2006

Key:   C

Tempo:  ~155 bpm

Singer:  Anthony (Tony) Archibald
             (a talented musician from the Isle
              of Man)

​Posted by:  threelegsoman

Tony's video also displays the lyrics (and guitar chords in the key of C).

This is a fine rendition of one of NL's most popular folk songs.

Key:  C
​
Tempo:  ~165 bpm.

Event: Gerald S. Doyle Folk Song Festival at The Beaches Heritage Centre in Eastport, Newfoundland on Saturday evening, August 15, 2009

Singers:  ?


Posted by: Don Shorock's Channel

Key:  D

Tempo: ~170 bpm

Performer:  Poss Slaney

Posted by:  Newfieposs

Key:  D

Tempo:  ~200 bpm

Group:  The Cod Tongues

​Posted by:  ic9876

​Music begins at time 0:26


Key:  G 
​
Tempo:  ~165 bpm

Performerr:    Harry Hibbs

​Posted by:  quickaccent2006

​

Key:  G

Tempo:  ~135 bpm

Group:   The Fables

Posted by: resettled68

Key:  G

Singer:  Chris Andrews

Accordionist:  Mark Hiscock

​Posted by:  TheNewfoundlandMusic


Background Materials, Information & Links

​Lyrics:

(Chorus plus 5 of the 10 verses)
Chorus:
        We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders
        We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below
        Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers
        When straight through the Channel to Toslow we'll go.

I'm a son of a sea cook, and a cook in a trader
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the mainboom 
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a fine figure
Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room.

If the voyage is good, this fall I will do it
I wants two pounds ten for a ring and the priest
A couple of dollars for clean shirts and collars
And a handful of coppers to make up a feast.

Chorus

Farewell and adieu to ye girls of St. Kryan's 
Of Paradise and Presque, Big and Little Bona
I'm bound unto Toslow to marry sweet Biddy
And if I don't do so I'm afraid of her da'.

I've bought me a house from Katherine Davis
A twenty pound bed from Jimmy McGrath
I'll get me a settle, a pot and a kettle
And then I'll be ready for Biddy, hurrah!

Chorus

Then here is a health to the girls of Fox Harbour
Of Oderin and Presque, Crabbes Hole and Brule
Now let ye be jolly, don't be melancholy
I can't marry all or in chokey I'd be.
​
Chorus  (Often sung twice at end)
​
Background Links:
Neil Rosenberg gave the author of the lyrics, written in the 1870s, as Henry W. LeMessurier (1848-1931), and the tune as based on 
"Spanish Ladies", an English sea shanty.  (See Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vol. 1, edited by Eric West, and published by Vinland Music.

Click HERE for additional info about this song, including the complete set of  ten verses.  (Wikipedia)

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