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 and/or burke:
“Frankie threw back her kimono, she took out her forty-four.
Root-a-toot-toot, three times she shot, right through that hardwood
door.”
—Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 25–27)
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)