You Ain't a Nova Scotian (If You Don't Like Fish)



You can tell a Nova Scotian

By the fragrance of the ocean,

For they always wear the perfume of the North Atlantic spray

But if you can't seem to smell 'em,

There's another way to tell 'em

For you'll always know a Bluenose by his diet right away!

(spoken) What do we eat? We eat...

Fish bones, herrin', oysters when we're daring.

And we often take a bake of hake 'cause that's a dandy dish!

To make chowder fit for dolphins, throw in everything but

sculpins

And you ain't a Nova Scotian if you don't like fish!



What we eats, until we're bustin'

Most Albertans find disgustin'.

For it seems salt cod's upsettin' to that dainty western tongue.

And with faces hard and stony,

They say "Herrin's too durn boney"

But there's nothing for dissolving bones like Nova Scotian rum.

(spoken) and so we eat:

Cod cheeks, cod tongues, even though they're odd tongues

Fish sticks and beefy chicks as dainty as you wish.

We eat flat fish, like the flounder

And some others that are rounder

And you ain't a Nova Scotian if you don't like fish!



You won't find no haddock fillets

In them Manitoba skillets

And away out in Saskatchewan they don't know fish from beets

Way out in Red River Valley

They can't tell scallops from tomally

And you'll get no clams or salmon with your dandelion treats.

(spoken) But us, we eat:



Finnan haddie, good for lass or laddie

And a smoked eel will make you feel

Like dancin'

We cook up salimugundi

Twenty seven ways from Sunday

And you ain't a Nova Scotian if you don't like fish!



Now lest there be a mix-up

There's just one thing I should fix up

For there's some that can't tell us from

Newfoundlanders tried and true;

We eat hake and cod and kippers,

But we don't eat seal flippers

And that's how you tell the difference, 'cause the Newfoundlanders do!

(spoken) We just eat:

Mackerel, pollock

They never give you colic

If you wash down your tuna with a little drink of squish

We love a mess of shad roe

, cod and gaspereau

And you ain't a Nova Scotian

(By the Holy land o' Goshen)

And you've never seen the ocean

If you don't like fish!



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Sung by Gough and Sulanowski

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