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Mussels in the Corner is a Newfoundland folk song.

In 2005, nine hundred and eighty-nine musicians gathered in St. John's

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's is the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, and is the oldest English-founded city in North America. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. With a population of 192,326 as of July 1, 2010, the St...

at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival to play "Mussels in the Corner" on accordions to set a world record for simultaneous accordion playing.http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050808/accordion_record_050807?s_name=&no_ads=

Lyrics

Mussels in the Corner

Chorus:

'Deed I is in love with you

Up all night in the foggy dew

'Deed I is in love with you

Mussels in the corner

Ask a bayman for a smoke

He will say my pipe is broke

Ask a bayman for a chew

He will bite it off for you

(chorus)

Dirty shirts and dirty ties

Dirty rings around their eyes

Can't get up the morning boys

Dirty auld Torbaymen

(chorus)

Here they are as white as ghosts

Baymen in their little boats

Women in their petticoats

Down in Petty Harbour

(chorus)

I took Liza to the ball

Liza couldn't dance at all

I beat her head against the wall

Mussels in the corner

(chorus)

All the people in Belle Isle

Don't get up till half past nine

Wash their face in kerosene oil

Polly, you're a corker!

(chorus)

Elsie Murray, she's so fine,

Don't get up til half past nine

Won't get up to feed the swine

Dirty Elsie Murray.

'Deed I is in love with you

Up all night in the foggy dew

'Deed I is in love with you

Mussels in the corner

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