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I's the B'y

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have fared well in terms of continued popularity, due in part to their appearance in widely circulated publications such as Gerald S. Doyle's songsters. Doyle's company published five free and popular collections of Newfoundland songs, the first in 1927, as a means of promoting his
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sampled the lyrics in their first single, "Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole". An instrumental version of the song was also played in episode two of the
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decided to honour the song in 2005, officially accepting it as part of the Canadian Song Hall of Fame.
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have recorded the song (the latter under both its original name and the title "Liverpool Handy").
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Unless otherwise specified, "fish" in Newfoundland English almost always refers to codfish,
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A platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying codfish on land,
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Archie Cairns - Book 1 Pipe Music 'I'se The B'yse' Strathspey 1995
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maggoty entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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for bagpipes was composed in honour of "I's the B'y".
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flake entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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cake entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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rind entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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fish entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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Index

Roud
Newfoundland folk song
ballad
Newfoundland English
standard English
Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
Newfoundland
folk songs
patent medicine
Tickle Cove Pond
Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
Old Polina
The Ryans and the Pittmans
Lukey's Boat
Dick Nolan
Great Big Sea
Gordon Bok
Toronto
Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
HBO
Strathspey
Fogo
Twillingate
Moreton's Harbour
Sods
Codfish
maggoty
Bonavista
List of Newfoundland songs
fish entry at the Dictionary of Newfoundland English

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