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ller name it is Miss Katie Flynn. she livcs (in) ncar Harbour Main:
Othcrwise up on the ridge I can [can·t] remind it still
[But if I'm not mistaken] Othef\\;se upon the ridge she livcs ncar Heartbreak Hill
9. Wc sailed away for the Labrador with a S\\cct and pleasant gale.
[The \\;00 came in your favour] Each day came in my favour just as I told lhe
lale.
The eighth day [that] we were at sea our anchors we let run:
In a pleasant harbour in a place called Smokcy Run.
10, So now my song is ended I havc no more 10 say.
Our freight thcre is all landed and our anchors wc must weigh!
Wc'lI hoist up our big mainsail and it's down the shore \\c'lI run.
May the heavens smile on [those] all thc girls we left. in mokcy Run. lt7
Pad Cole learned his version from his grandmothcr Kenny, It was composed by
three or four people on thc way to Labrador. including Kate Foley.
In contrast to the preceding lighted·hearted story and song. there arc stories of
skippers fiercely protecting the women who came on the Lnbrudor with them and of
women being fearful of men on the passage and on the Labrador who were "after them",
My fnthcr Jim Doyle claimed that the main reason men made overtures to women was
tlUit this gave them opportunity to share their berths; "That's all thnt it actually was, a
ploce to lay your head,.. 118 Songs and slories documenting these shipboard romances
117 MUNFLA 86-013. C8686, For information on composers. sec "The Big Three­
Mastcd Schooner" earlier in this chapter,
III See MUNFLA. ms" 8-1--220. The father-daughtcr relationship may ha\'c innuenced
his denial ofsexual activity. However, he did tell me that he had girlfricnds on the
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