Play (Great Big Sea album)

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Play
Play cover
Studio album by Great Big Sea
Released 1997 (Canada)
Recorded 1997 at The Battery and CBC Studios
Genre Folk
Label Warner Music Canada
Producer Danny Greenspoon
Professional reviews
Great Big Sea chronology
Up
(1995)		 Play
(1997)		 Rant and Roar
(1998)

Play is an album by Great Big Sea released in 1997.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Ordinary Day"
  2. "When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)"
  3. "The Night Pat Murphy Died"
  4. "How Did We Get From Saying 'I Love You'..."
  5. "Donkey Riding"
  6. "Haven't Seen You In A Long Time"
  7. "End Of The World"
  8. "General Taylor"
  9. "Seagulls"
  10. "Recruiting Sargeant"
  11. "Greenspond"
  12. "My Apology"
  13. "Jakey's Gin"
  14. "Something I Should Know"
  15. "Jolly Roving Tar"
  16. Untitled Bonus Track (Sometimes referred to as "Little Beggarman" or "Rigadoon")

[edit] Song information

  • "Recruiting Sargeant" is about The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in WWI, and was adapted from an old Scottish traditional song "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants" about the Black Watch Regiment apparently from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and so consequently the song has some interesting similarities to another traditional army song from the same period, Over the Hills and Far Away. The GBS version is from a play called The Recruiting Officer.
  • "Greenspond" is about Greenspond, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small fishing community on the north east coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
  • Track 16, a bonus, untitled song, is a traditional Irish song which fans refer to as "Little Beggarman" or "Rigadoon."

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