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Nova Scotia Diet

from Sun, Moon and Stars by Clary Croft

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Nova Scotia Diet
Lyrics and music by Jim Bennet
Bay Music Company [BMIC]

Now you can tell a Nova Scotian by the fragrance of the ocean,
For they always wear the perfume of the North Atlantic spray,
But if you can’t seem to smell ‘em, - there’s just one sure way to tell ‘em
For you’ll always know a Bluenose by his diet right away.

We eat: pickled herring, oysters when we’re daring,
And we often take and bake a hake, and that’s a dandy dish,
To make a chowder good for gulpin’, throw in everything but sculpin,
And you ain’t a Nova Scotian if you don’t like fish.

What we eat until we’re bustin’, Manitobans find disgustin’,
For it seems salt cod, upsetting to the dainty Western tum,
And with faces stern and stony, they say, “herrin’ too darn boney”,
But here’s like dissolving bones like Nova Scotia rum.

So we eat: mackerel, pollock, never give you colic when you wash your tuna down with I little drink of swish,
Have some fish row, tommy cod and gaspereau,
You ain’t a Nova Scotian if you don’t like fish!

Now lest there should be a mix up, there’s just one thing I should fix up,
And that’s how you can tell us from Newfoundlanders tried and true,
We eat capelin, cod and kippers but we don’t eat seal flippers,
And that’s how you tell the difference, ‘cause the Newfoundlanders do.

But we eat: mackerel, pollock, never give you colic when you wash your tuna down with a little drink of swish,
Have some fish row, tommy cod and gaspereau,
You ain’t a Nova Scotian if you don’t like fish!

Pickled herring, oysters when we’re daring,
And we often take and bake a hake, and that’s a dandy dish,
To make a chowder good for gulpin’, throw in everything but sculpin,
You ain’t a Nova Scotian, by the holy Land of Goshen, no you’ve never seen the ocean, if you don’t like fish.

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from Sun, Moon and Stars, released April 20, 2021

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Clary is a folklore researcher, author and recording artist. His newly published memoirs, Clary Croft: My Charmed Life in Music, Art, and Folklore, chronicles a career spanning over fifty years. His work with the traditional music from the Creighton Collection, has caused Clary to be called, “the acknowledged master of one of the richest repertoires in Canada.” [Halifax Mail Star] ... more

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