Jim Payne is a popular Newfoundland folk singer who...(more)
Jim Payne is a popular Newfoundland folk singer who specialises in songs of the sea. He performs regularly with Fergus O'Byrne and with the band "A Crowd of Bold Sharemen". I had the privilege of hearing him sing with Fergus both in St. John's at this open air concert and in Bonaventure on the Bonavista Peninsular on the set of the movie "Random Passage". I also heard them as part of "A Crowd of Bold Sharemen" at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival.
He has written several songs, but this one, composed with Janis Spence, is probably his best known. My wife and I both loved this song as soon as we heard it on a CD we bought in Ferryland, and I have already uploaded an a capella version in our room in St John's.(less)
