Newfoundland Lullaby
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Newfoundland Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by Newfoundland’s small fishing villages, known as outports, and its rich dialect and folk music tradition. Newfoundland English preserves dialect features and vocabulary that have faded elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a legacy of centuries of relative isolation, and at Christmastime many communities still keep alive mummering, a tradition of dressing in disguise and visiting neighbors’ homes to be guessed at and welcomed in for a drink and a song. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Newfoundland Lullaby” Means
“Me duckie” is a warm Newfoundland English term of endearment, used across the island’s small fishing villages known as outports. Newfoundland’s dialect carries deep roots from southwest England and southeast Ireland, alongside a rich tradition of accordion and fiddle music. This original lullaby draws on those coastal and fishing-village images of Newfoundland life, with “me duckie” used as a warm address rather than a literal translation.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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