Key signature: Fmajor
Submitted on May 10th 2007 by Chellam.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Lukey, Lukey's Boat Is Painted Green.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lukey's Boat
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Fmaj
C | F3G | AB GE | F4 |z3C |
|: FFFG | AB GE | F3D|C3A |
cA Bc | BG C3/2B/2 | AF GA|FD CC |
F3G | AB GE | F4|1 z3C :|2 F4 | z4 ||
..sure hope this abc is right....my third only.
Likely origins of the Newfoundland ditty 'Lukey's Boat' are an early fiddle tune or a 'diddled' tune (mouth music).
The words were written in the nineteenth century by businesswoman, Virtue Hann Kean, of Wesleyville, Bonavista Bay, about Luke Gaulton to make a bit of fun of him.
I will include two verses of the many here.
Oh Lukey's boat is painted green, aha, me byes.
Oh Lukey's boat is painted green,
The prettiest boat you've ever seen
Aha, aha me riddle I day
Oh Lukey's wife she died last year, aha, me byes.
"Oh now" says Lukey "I don't care,
I'll get another in the spring of the year,"
Aha, aha me riddle I day.
# Posted on May 10th 2007 by Chellam