We all sang The Ode to Newfoundland and God Save the King/Queen at school and public events. Brings back many memories of my early childhood in Botwood.

日本人です！ 私は一度もニューファンドランドへ行ったことがありませんが、あの島が大好きです。 一度行ってみたいです。 I translated Japanese to English. So, it is a bad later. I’m a Japanese! I’ve never been to NF. But I love Newfoundland island! I want to visit NF someday!

Jesus bys sixteen years and still a good song

I studied in MUN, NF for 4 years, 20 years back. I am back in Malaysia now, but memories of NF live forever in my heart. Beautiful place & friendly people.

To beautiful and gracious Newfoundland,.... "stay where you're at and i'll come where you're to"

Wow! I just saw the beautiful pictures of the rugged coastline and crashing waves, heard the folk song with harmonious voices, and thought how evocatively beautiful it all was. I guess it's all in what we choose to give our attention to. This video to me depicts pride of place and family connections that run deep. How beautiful.

So beautiful. Makes me so homesick, almost to the point of a pain in my heart and tears in my eyes. I guess that's what Newfoundland does to you, it is in your soul.

Whenever i hears dis song, it males me sooo proud to be able to groww up on dis gorgeous island!!!

Any version of this song is a tribute to this fair isle of ours. Love the sax

Actually brings tears to my eyes. This is the anthem I’m proud to fly our flag too.

rally a beauty ful song

Living in Ontario, she's calling me home to her rocky shore where I will fall in Love once more.....

The history of this wonderful anthem is so interesting: written by the Governor of Newfoundland, Sir Cavendish Boyle, and set to music by Boyle's friend Sir Hubert Parry, the composer for example of the celebrated setting of William Blake's poem "Jerusalem". -- In the 1940s when I was a boy my father had a large map of Canada in his office, showing a huge white gap which, I was told, were Newfoundland and Labrador,-- not then part of Canada. I found this very disturbing and was exhilarated on 31st March 1949, when Newfoundland became a Province of Canada. The Ode to Newfoundland should be played on the Peace Tower carillon on every anniversary of this event.

I've been away from NL for so long this ode brings me to tears. As an athiest the gawd aspect does nothing for me but the remainder......

@picturenut

5 жыл бұрын

Jagade Rolls. Gawd is whoever you think it is. Maybe Mother Earth...the universe or something inside you. That God can still bless and love Newfoundland. ( I grew up believing Labrador was part of Newfoundland and thus inclusive )

love newfoundland ...miss home on the capeshore....

Very nice.

beautiful!! proud to be a newfie!!

@leilahrodway8788

7 жыл бұрын

Venus Vivian Same here ;D

@itsmag2827

4 жыл бұрын

same Newfie forever

I live in Rocky Harbour, Its bout 40 mins North of Deer Lake. on the viking trail in middle of Gros Mourne park. I live in Fort Mac now and I liked this vid nice song and pics.

MAKES ME PROUD TO BE A NEWFOUNDLANDER

From GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador: "The video above features a recording by Vonnie Barron and Esther Squires on a compilation album of various artists (Another Time : The Songs Of Newfoundland, trk#12, 1991 CD, Pigeon Inlet, St John's, recorded at Dadyeen Studios, St John's, produced by Kelly Russell and Don Walsh)." See: www.gestsongs.com/01/anthem.htm

Sara B. She is an American 99% sure of that, click on her name and look at her KZread videos. "The men from the country are some of the most heartless, ignorant, blood thirsty that has ever been born." is what she said in her post below. Well I am a Newfoundland man, my father, right to my great,great, great Grandfather are all Newfoundland men who have killed seals for one reason or another. In the past seals where killed for food, and skins, and yes they were killed with a club as they could not afford to waste valuable powder and shot on them, they were living in a very harse environment barely scratching out a living. In the last 20 years or more seals can only be killed with a rifle. Now Kathy Sexton more then likely does not know what it is like to live in place like that where you had to live off the land or starve. My father told me stories when he was a kid of having to kill seagulls to eat, this in the 1930's! So I take great offence to people who have no idea what in the hell they are talking about and are hypocrite's to highest degree, because if they pick a flower that's killing a living thing period. And a great percentage of these people are Americans who are very ignorant to the facts and have big mouths to boot. If she came to Newfoundland and started shooting off her big mouth like she did below, I would push her off a wharf in second.....

@EGru1

7 жыл бұрын

You are quite correct I recall my grandmother telling me stories of survival in a rural community, and how everybody for survival basically had to come together as a community or basically die. So everyone in community no matter what they had came together in a community donation type of thing and then it was distributed as best could be. I love to see that happen today, if something tragic happened, I think there be a lot more death in the community then what happened in 30s.

Beautiful!

I’m from Ontario, but whenever I complained about the cold when I was little my mom would sing this to remind me that no matter how bad it gets at least we don’t live in Newfoundland. I don’t know anything about Newfoundlanders but if they’re this proud of the fact that their weather is garbage I have nothing but respect for them. Keep it up you complete maniacs.

@picturenut

3 жыл бұрын

Newfoundland weather is indeed challenging especially in some places. You belong to Ontario and the weather you have in Toronto it’s not the weather you have in northern Ontario. The weather we have in St. John is not the weather they have in places like Grand Falls and Corner Brook which is very similar to your Toronto weather. That’s it… We live here, we love it here and we are most of us anyway, and quite thankful we don’t live in Toronto. I’ve spent some time in Toronto and it’s a beautiful city but your weather is extreme in heat and cold and I’ve been there in some god-awful weather where I slid from one end of the place to the other but that’s life. E erywhere is different.I’m sure you love Toronto and I would love it if I were there too.

@thepip3599

3 жыл бұрын

@@picturenut I’m from Dundas, not Toronto. It’s not too far away though. I think.

@dinkster1729

3 ай бұрын

Your mother's from Newfoundland? or Labrador? St John's weather is wet. St John's is warmer in winter than Toronto or Montreal or Kingston. It did get a couple of big snow storms this year though.

What is the church at the 1 minute 8 second point? I was thinking about how free of political and war-like messages this beautiful anthem is. Both my parents were Newfoundlanders and this anthem was sung at their funeral services here in Ontario. Thanks for posting this.

@Countrybananas

Жыл бұрын

St. Thomas Anglican Church. It is the oldest surviving Anglican church in Newfoundland.

I am aNewfoundlander and proud to be from the Rock

Great song Robert, it has an Irish flavor to it!

best song ever

I love it in Newfoundland

So true thank you

Nice video and well sung! Cheers~Mike of The Sharecroppers of Nfld.

Keep strong, we will beat this virus too.

Does anybody have the old recording of the this? The choral version CBCTV or NTV used to play at the beginning of the broadcast day back in the 80's? This new version while well done is too soft/nice for me.

I miss Newfoundland my home

Who are the musicians?, Anita Best and ...? Kudos to them all, and thanks for this.

We sing this at National music camp every summer :P

I love the smile laying

@loverandomme1 it's a myth our winters are colder. They're actually warmer in the southern half of the island because of the Gulf Current effect. I never felt -30 temps until I moved to the mainland.

@dinkster1729

3 ай бұрын

Right! Maybe, Lab City has extremely cold winters, but not the Avalon Penninsula. I knew a guy who was an American Navy Air Force pilot and he said he's been stationed at Argentia to test American military planes in cold weather. I laughed at him and said Eastern Ontario has colder weather than Argentia. I asked him if he got up to Labrador with his test flights and he answered, "No!" Probably some big wig from the southern states had decided to test American planes in Argentia where the weather was supposedly cold. LOLOL!

nice

makes me proud to be a newf as well!!

I'm proud to be a newfoundlander.

Great job Ambrose

Mabey come on the West Coast just so.... Everybody dont think its all rock and fog!!!

NewFOUNDland

We love our newfies ! ^^

BY'S! I DIES FER DA NEWFIE SAXOPHONE!!!! that's Ronnie Driscoll fer sure

From one maritimer to another maritimer CANADA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD NB PEI NS QUEBEC ON MANITOBA SASKATCHEWAN ÀLBEETA BRITISH COLUMBIA YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIÈS AND NUNÀVET . I COME FROM NOVA SCOTIA

@MrSpitfire911

Ай бұрын

You left out NFLD

fantasy island

lamb...LAMB....lambs are so cute. Did they have a chance......

lolllll

It’s so lonely on the west coast

@annetterussell4429

5 жыл бұрын

Josh The Nerd that's where I am from Hope to go back one day soon. That is where my heart is

NL is the best

@picturenut Thought I was making a comment on a diff vid sorry, delete it if you can Still a great job however

Ise da bais

Skeet

@picturenut Oh god b'y, Ya never listens to a townie

I miss the choir/choral version CBC TV used to play at the end of the broadcast day. Personally i find this new version to be a bit bland.

I hate to see this comment and the discussion following. I did ask her where she was from but as far as I can see, she did not answer. Every country has a dark history. If she were American....you only have to look at Slavery. From what I can see the attitude towards blacks has changed very little. Perhaps she was not there at all. In Canada we have the Native people and our own problem with slaves in the last century. I find killing anything horrible so I can not see a deer, bear, caribou, moose hunt. It sickens me as much as seals . I couldn't hunt seals. Neither could my grandfather who went once...and no more. But I respect your rights to do these things...within laws that are established for the protection of the animals. We don't want a near extinction like the Buffulo.To quote Jesus as accurately as I can; "Let you who are without sin, cast the first stone."

@alexisplays2025

7 жыл бұрын

Lorna Miles-Baon

@heartscontent

6 жыл бұрын

There is no difference between the killing of seals compared to any other animal. It is part of life. It is unfortunate that the likes of Paul Watson et al have gotten rich on the backs of Newfoundlanders who went to sea and risked their lives to feed their families. My father was on the Viking sealing ship as a very young man when the ship blew up, the results of some American film producer who wanted to make a movie. My father barely escaped with his life but others were not as lucky. People are so quick to judge but could never deal with a tiny fraction of the hardship and peril that the sealers faced just to make a living. God bless them and thank God for his mercy in saving my father.

@MOI-qq8zc

6 жыл бұрын

Lorna Miles-Baum what the fuck are you talking about?

@dinkster1729

3 ай бұрын

@@heartscontent "Death on the Ice" is a great book about the traditional seal hunt as is "The Greatest Hunt in the World". Very, very dangerous work even if the captain of your vessel wasn't a dangerous lunatic.

@heartscontent

3 ай бұрын

I have read “Death on the Ice” by Cassie Brown. She has written many books dealing with Newfoundland disasters including also “The Wreck of the Forrestell”. And the captain of the Viking should never have been allowed to leave port.

I lived in Newfoundland for 4 and a half years, and never got into its whole "national" shtick. I know some good people there but some people were overly patriotic to Newfoundland. While I myself am patriotic to the country all around

@dinkster1729

3 ай бұрын

It's like Quebec in that way.

check out this Newfoundlander ! "Rolling In The Deep"-- mikesweeney25, a MUST see!!

LOL written by ab Englishman but sung with an Irish twang

diddo...

Let Scotland get her's first NFL to follow they just want the oil anyways

@picturenut HEAR HEAR

@kyanah1029 *makes *grow

*accent*

It was just a joke though..

hahahahaha not true

Sorry but I believe you just ruined the Ode to Newfoundland!

@pavelusa3423

Жыл бұрын

O really..thanx for your input

BOOOOO

GAG! What no verse on how we love to slaughter baby harp seals!

Why aren't they showing the bludgeoning and mutilation of baby harp seals, That is a big part of the New Foundland history. A country that appears beautiful on the outside but has a very dark and bloody side to it. The men from the country are some of the most heartless, ignorant, blood thirsty that has ever been born. And if you don't shiver ever time you picture a baby seal being beaten half to death and then dragged by a hook while it whines then you are only partially human. Ode to Newfoundland my ass.

@lokisdragonwolf

7 жыл бұрын

You are just another disgusting person who just looks at the videos spread by the lying animal rights groups. The people of Newfoundland are awesome and I'm glad that someday I will get to spend some time with them and also in the Inuit lands in Labrador. people like you are some of the biggest reasons that I have become a pro seal hunting supporter instead of a anti. I love Newfoundland and Labrador so much it is the place where most of my book takes place in and the more i learn about it the more i love it. I regret that I ever supported the lie known as animal rights.

@stevenkarabelas9033

7 жыл бұрын

what are you,some sort of seal nazi

@heartscontent

6 жыл бұрын

I think, Ms Sexton, you have enough to worry about with the history of your own country and the way it has treated human beings. You cannot hold a candle to the dignity, courage and grace of the Newfoundlander. Such hatred you display only hurts you the hater not the innocent object of your vitriol. God help you.

Where are you from Kelly?

Does anybody have the old recording of the this? The choral version CBCTV or NTV used to play at the beginning of the broadcast day back in the 80's? This new version while well done is too soft/nice for me.