The River Lee

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Joseph

Another from the Port Jefferson festival. The River Lee, which is a traditional text but the melody here was composed by Gina Dunlap. Joseph Morneault on the English concertina.

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3 Responses to The River Lee

  1. Henry Peacock says:
    October 22, 2021 at 4:41 am

    Joseph, thank you for that. I wish I had been there!

    We had a terrific annual Maritime Festival at Lancaster, in the north of England, something any city would have been proud of. However, internal squabbling in the city council brought it to a sad end, Two festivals have grown up since, at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port (west coast) and the port of Harwich (east coast).

    River Lee/Lea. The spellings Lea and Lee are both in current use, but the river is more often called the River Lea (anciently sometimes the River Ley) and the navigation the Lee Navigation. It joins the Thames in London, either at Bow Creek or, via the Limehouse Cut, at Limehouse Basin,

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: GUEST,Guest Gina Dunlap
    Date: 23 May 01 – 02:34 PM
    Hello Mudcat, I thought I would clarify the information on the song Go to Sea No More. I wrote the tune way back in 1983 when I was in a band called Kincora with Jim Douglas. Shortly after the band broke up I moved to England. When I returned 5 years later I found that Dave Peloquin & Compass Rose had been doing it for all those years and it is now on their latest C.D. It has also been recorded by Mystic’s Forebitter and by Geoff Kaufman on his new solo C.D. and I believe that Cliff Haslam is doing it as well. I am in a group called Shipping News and it’s on our CD “Wives Tales” and songs of the sea. We are on the bill at Mystic Sea Music Festival coming up in a few weeks. If anyone else out there is doing the song , I would to love to hear of it. Fair winds

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: Jeri Date: 23 May 01 – 06:21 PM
    It was Cliff Haslam I heard sing it. (He has to have my favorite voice in the whole world!)

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: GUEST,Gina Dunlap
    Date: 24 May 01 – 11:38 AM
    The song in question is called The River Lea and also Go to Sea No more. The line ‘Beat down the bay of Fundy’ appears in the chorus. Hope this helps. Jeri, I agree, Cliff’s voice is a force of nature. I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing him do this song as yet , but we are in a workshop together at Mystic and perhaps he will do it then. The line in my earlier thread should read; It has been recorded by Mystics’s Forebitter, solo by Geoff Kaufman and is on their new CD… Too much coffee I guess.

    With my best wishes,

    Henry Peacock
    Preston, England

  2. Henry Peacock says:
    October 22, 2021 at 4:43 am

    Joseph,

    River Lea, thank you for that. I wish I had been there!

    We had a terrific annual Maritime Festival at Lancaster, in the north of England, something any city would have been proud of. However, internal squabbling in the city council brought it to a sad end, Two festivals have grown up since, at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port (west coast) and the port of Harwich (east coast).

    River Lee/Lea. The spellings Lea and Lee are both in current use, but the river is more often called the River Lea (anciently sometimes the River Ley) and the navigation the Lee Navigation. It joins the Thames in London, either at Bow Creek or, via the Limehouse Cut, at Limehouse Basin,

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: GUEST,Guest Gina Dunlap
    Date: 23 May 01 – 02:34 PM
    Hello Mudcat, I thought I would clarify the information on the song Go to Sea No More. I wrote the tune way back in 1983 when I was in a band called Kincora with Jim Douglas. Shortly after the band broke up I moved to England. When I returned 5 years later I found that Dave Peloquin & Compass Rose had been doing it for all those years and it is now on their latest C.D. It has also been recorded by Mystic’s Forebitter and by Geoff Kaufman on his new solo C.D. and I believe that Cliff Haslam is doing it as well. I am in a group called Shipping News and it’s on our CD “Wives Tales” and songs of the sea. We are on the bill at Mystic Sea Music Festival coming up in a few weeks. If anyone else out there is doing the song , I would to love to hear of it. Fair winds

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: Jeri Date: 23 May 01 – 06:21 PM
    It was Cliff Haslam I heard sing it. (He has to have my favorite voice in the whole world!)

    Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bay of Fundy – not Bok From: GUEST,Gina Dunlap
    Date: 24 May 01 – 11:38 AM
    The song in question is called The River Lea and also Go to Sea No more. The line ‘Beat down the bay of Fundy’ appears in the chorus. Hope this helps. Jeri, I agree, Cliff’s voice is a force of nature. I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing him do this song as yet , but we are in a workshop together at Mystic and perhaps he will do it then. The line in my earlier thread should read; It has been recorded by Mystics’s Forebitter, solo by Geoff Kaufman and is on their new CD… Too much coffee I guess.

    With my best wishes,

    Henry Peacock
    Preston, England

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