Not even Canadian, I’m a Brit but I can appreciate this absolute banger

Before lyrics I must have rewound this song a hundred times to learn the words. Just so I could get drunk and sing it. One of my all time favourite songs of any genre.

We listened to the Irish Descendant's version of this song in my junior year AP English class, and here I am 14 years later, still have this song still in my head, and so happy the sea shanty phase came around so more people can enjoy it too! I love the harmonies in it as well.

Reminds me of sitting in The Lower Deck in Halifax splashing more beer than we were drinking, good times.

I love how all the voices harmonise! They sound so beautiful singing together!

Love being part of the Barrett family. Newfoundland will always be my home

There'll never be another Stan Rogers. Born in 1949, in Hamilton, Ontario, he died in 1983 in the Air Canada DC-9 that burned on the runway at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which is actually located in Covington, KY, USA. A contemporary of guys like Eric Bogle and Ralph McTell, he told a uniquely Canadian story in his own traditionally inspired way. I'd planned on attending his next show, in Newfoundland. He never made it. RIP Stan; we miss you.

Some people in the comments seem a little confused. This is a cover (a very good one) of a Canadian folk song. Having said that it's a fictitious and relatively modern folk song even though it tells an accurate story of Canadian privateers in the American Revolutionary War. In fact it comes to us from the great Stan Rogers circa 1970-something. The reference to Sherbrook is probably to his family's place of origin in Sherbrook Nova Scotia, despite that town not being incorporated until the 19th century. The song is associated with the Canadian East Coast, Maritimer parties and the Royal Canadian Navy.

Proud Canadian/Irish here. This Beeeeautiful.

This is the sound of my childhood, it brings back so many memories.

I have been part of spontaneous pub singalongs for this tune twice. Probably helps that said pubs were a few minutes' walk from the Halifax piers. A great time

I love these guys. When my daughter was a little girl we would listen to Gypsies and Lovers and sing this song every morning

My bois and I sing this while floating the upper current river in missouri!

I heard this song on Grooveshark and it took me so long to find the same version. I'm so happy I did!

As much as I love The Irish Descendants, no one can ever top Stan Rogers with this song

i cry from happiness every time someone mentions or covers Stan Rogers. soo much great music missed out on from a life cut short

I was raised on this music. I absolutely love it. It is unique just like Canada.

God Damn them all.

This is the most authentic canadian irish music i've ever heard. I have heard so much cultural Irish music and this is by far one of the most authentic cultural music piece ever written. I'm touched.. its great,. gidgshit must be tone death

best Newfoundland band on the rock