Mussels in the Corner

Mussels in the Corner is a Newfoundland folk song.

In 2005, nine hundred and eighty-nine musicians gathered in St. John's at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival to play "Mussels in the Corner" on accordions to set a world record for simultaneous accordion playing.[1]

Lyrics[]

Chorus:

'Deed I is in love with you

Up all night in the foggy dew

'Deed I is in love with you

Mussels in the corner

Ask a townie for a smoke

He will say his pipe is broke

Ask a bayman for a chew

He will bite it off for you

(chorus)

Dirty shirts and dirty ties

Dirty rings around their eyes

Can't get up the morning b'ys

Dirty auld Torbaymen

(chorus)

Here they are as white as ghosts

Baymen in their little boats

Women in their petticoats

Down in Petty Harbour

(chorus)

I took Liza to the ball

Liza couldn't dance at all

nailed her up against the wall

left her there till sunday

(chorus)

All the people in Belle Isle

Don't get up till half past nine

Wash their face in kerosene oil

Polly, you're a corker!

(chorus)

Elsie Murray, she's so fine,

Don't get up til half past nine

Won't get up to feed the swine

Dirty Elsie Murray.

'Deed I is in love with you

Up all night in the foggy dew

'Deed I is in love with you

Mussels in the corner

Mussels in the Corner

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