Lukey's Boat

Song Information

Composer: Traditional

Lyric Author: Traditional

Published: Early 20th Century

Country of origin: Canada/Newfoundland

General Interest

Many people think this song was written by Great Big Sea, who released the most popular version in 1995, but it was first "collected" by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld. Greenleaf noted that the song was cast in the same metre as the famous shanty 'In Amsterdam There Lived a Maid' and thus may have originated as a shanty.

Helen Creighton, who in Nova Scotia collected a shorter version known as 'Loakie's Boat,' says that her singers told her it was about a man who came from Lunenburg.

Source: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lukeys-boat-emc/

Here's a link to the Lyric:

Lukey's Boat Lyric

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