Johnny Burke

Johnny Burke (1851–1930) was a Newfoundland songwriter and musician. He was nicknamed the 'Bard of Prescott Street'. He wrote many popular songs that artists in the 1930s and 1940s released.

Popular songs by Burke include:

  • The Night Paddy Murphy Died
  • Cod Liver Oil
  • Murphy Broke The Pledge
  • Who Shipped The Moonshine To St. John's
  • The Spring Maurice Crotty Fought The Old Dog-hood
  • The Kelligrews Soiree
  • The Trinity Cake
  • Never Been There Before
  • Betsy Brennan's Blue Hen
  • Excursion Around The Bay
  • Little Boneen
  • Old Brown's Daughter
  • The Flemings Of Torbay
  • The Hat My Father Wore
  • The Landfall Of Cabot
  • The Sealers Gained The Strike
  • The Valley Of Kilbride

Some contend that he also wrote I's the B'y

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Name Burke, Johnny
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Date of birth 1851
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Date of death 1930
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Famous quotes containing the words johnny burke, johnny and/or burke:

    “Moonlight becomes you,
    It goes with your hair.”
    —Johnny Burke (1908–1984)

    “Wha lies here?
    I, Johnny Doo.
    Hoo, Johnny, is that you?
    Ay, man, but a’m dead noo.”
    —Anonymous. “Johnny Doo,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)

    “It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)