French Perfume By Great Big Sea Lyrics

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  • @doberman1ism
    @doberman1ism 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is a beautiful and wonderful song. The lyrics to this song reminds me of the lyrics to a pome written by the American fictional author Bret Harte. It was staged in Newport, Rhode Island in the early 1900s when he saw an apparition of a beautiful young lady waltzing around the ballroom. As she waltzed beneath the candle lit crystal chandeliers the sweet fragrance of French perfume filled the air. He longed to call out to her as she disappeared into the fragrance of the night. I love this song it is so romantic and powerful. French perfume was a highly sought after commodity and commanded a very high price.

    • @coffeepressed4time
      @coffeepressed4time 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aidah Di Leoni If I'm not mistaken, this French Perfume is referring to the smell of rum and/or cigar smoke, which would make sense if he is indeed a smuggler as the song states.

    • @Jourell1
      @Jourell1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It also states that he picked up perfume along with the cigars and rum, the line is pretty quick so its easy to miss. the song is referring to a notorious smuggling route in eastern canada. St Pierre is a small island very close to Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, which includes the towns of Fortune and Spanish Room, mentioned in the song.

    • @Jourell1
      @Jourell1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      St Pierre is a French island. Smuggling alcohol from it became especially popular during the 1920s. they wold take it into canada and down into the states.

  • @brillopower1492
    @brillopower1492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yeah, this is definitely going on my Halloween playlist.

  • @sarahgray430
    @sarahgray430 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This song isn't about piracy, people, it's about a smuggler or "rum runner" They plied the East Coast of Canada and America and the Great Lakes region during Prohibition, dealing in illicit booze, tobacco, drugs and other contraband and there is still an illegal trade in pot and tobacco to this day. Now can you imagine Disney making a Pirates of The Great Lakes movie? Now that would be fun!

    • @Jourell1
      @Jourell1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The song actually mentions the region its set in. Saint Pierre and Miquelonis a group of French islands within about 15 km of Newfoundland. And yes, it close proximity did make it an infamous smuggling route back in the day

  • @casiedragmire4686
    @casiedragmire4686 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This song gave me an idea for a character for a book I'm writing!
    I love this song, it's absolutely fantastic!

  • @user-vipgxpn
    @user-vipgxpn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    J'ai adoré! Et je connais cette chanson depuis plus de dix ans maintenant! Bravo!

    • @mindsmile2259
      @mindsmile2259 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gauloisier de la Gauloiserie moi aussi!

  • @jackj6457
    @jackj6457 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    50 klicks is Commonwealth English for 50 kilometres per hour

  • @MegaAlex576
    @MegaAlex576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    This makes me want to be on a pirate ship while sword fighting some murderous mermaids

  • @sorcererspadawan2952
    @sorcererspadawan2952 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This sounds like it could have been in a late 90s early 2000s Scooby-Doo movie

  • @rovids1018
    @rovids1018 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Damn this brings me back when ever I go to newfoundland :D
    playing this song in a kitchen party and other songs

    • @Meng_7025
      @Meng_7025 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I listened to this all the time in PEI the
      Maritimes are amazing

  • @nytemarequeen2365
    @nytemarequeen2365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Not to split hairs, but I think it's supposed to be spelled "klicks" when referred to kilometers or kilometers per hour. Great video!

  • @jacksickle_8223
    @jacksickle_8223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wish the song was on Spotify

    • @Solarmyr
      @Solarmyr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is now! I was really surprised to find it, but it's there 🤷‍♂

  • @jimbutke
    @jimbutke 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my fav GBS songs!

  • @NoUsernameGoodSir
    @NoUsernameGoodSir 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Just a note on the lyrics- I think it's "50 klicks", that is, military slang for kilometers or kilometers per hour, rather than an onomatopoeia. Thank you for posting this!

  • @spacedruid2415
    @spacedruid2415 10 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    These guys just cant write a bad song or do a poor cover.

  • @History-corrected
    @History-corrected 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    i recomend that everyone listens to this song.

  • @Moongirl12121
    @Moongirl12121 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Does that say in the bottom right corner that September the 19th, is tale like a pirate day?

  • @tortillasenpai2911
    @tortillasenpai2911 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ooo, much good, very music.

  • @upthera9369
    @upthera9369 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    love this song

  • @chrishodder4672
    @chrishodder4672 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's about me hometown....n I miss drinkin smuggled rum down in Spanishroom....Placentia Bay bie:-)

  • @brambleberryproductions1235
    @brambleberryproductions1235 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    All Other Comments: 'OMG PIRATE! ENGLAND AND FOXY!!!'
    Me: '...wait is this Spanish, British or Irish?! ...also lovely song. I'm an idiot I know'

    • @AlexandreKarpov
      @AlexandreKarpov 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Scarlett Acid Newfoundland.

    • @brambleberryproductions1235
      @brambleberryproductions1235 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alexandre Karpov Ah. Thank you.

    • @Jourell1
      @Jourell1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      It's Canadian, the band Great Big Sea is known for performing traditional Newfoundland folk songs in addition to their own material.
      St Pierre is a French island that's very close to Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula (which includes the towns of Fortune and Spanish Room mentioned in the song) and so would be an easy smuggling route. In this case though, our smuggler is spotted by the mounties (royal canadian mounted police), and crashes into the rocks trying to escape.

    • @devinsword5777
      @devinsword5777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      canadian, actualy- "the mountie boat was waiting as he crawled up mortier bay", mounties are the royal canadian mounted police

    • @jstarstudios7110
      @jstarstudios7110 ปีที่แล้ว

      IT'S CANADIAN!!! 😄

  • @flamewear
    @flamewear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    So unlike all the other people who got here through some fanfic i got here through an entirely different fanfic which mentioned chemical workers song and I explored from there. :/

    • @haileygermain5740
      @haileygermain5740 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't remember how I found this song. It was years ago though, I remember that much.

    • @jowsh1826
      @jowsh1826 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hailey Vance my dad used to sing this to me when I was younger. It’s been years and this song really brings me back.

    • @soy_was_here_but_gae2859
      @soy_was_here_but_gae2859 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You've red my mind 👀

  • @newfoundlandmapping4493
    @newfoundlandmapping4493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m honestly surprised by the amount of people who think this is an English song,

  • @gabrielschulhof
    @gabrielschulhof 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    50 klicks, not 50 clicks

    • @nytemarequeen2365
      @nytemarequeen2365 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ohhh, I thought they'd mixed up "clicks" with "knots," I didn't know there was a different spelling

  • @castielnovak4632
    @castielnovak4632 10 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    sounds like the beginning of an anime

    • @deannagaddy977
      @deannagaddy977 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea it does.

    • @ShadowDarkleaf
      @ShadowDarkleaf 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ((I know it has a opening already)) either fairy tail or one piece

    • @darthguilder1923
      @darthguilder1923 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shadow Darkleaf that would work pretty well

    • @odinfromcentr2
      @odinfromcentr2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LordDrakoArakis could make it happen.

  • @triumvir_hunt
    @triumvir_hunt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    its so annoying that i have heard this tune before but not on this song and i cant figure out on what other song i have heard it xd

    • @sciranger6703
      @sciranger6703 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same!

    • @Inqusitor_VDM
      @Inqusitor_VDM 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i think its set to the same tune of Hello Darkness my old friend by Simon and Garfunkel just a bit sped up

  • @thirdinternationaltheory
    @thirdinternationaltheory 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just found this song

  • @LeoBronze
    @LeoBronze 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    when they said ¨pierre¨ they wrote it peirre. WHAT IS THAT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!

    • @Jourell1
      @Jourell1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just a misspelling. Saint-Pierre is the capital of a group of french islands off the coast of Newfoundland. They're very close to the Burin Peninsula, including the towns of Fortune and Spanish Room mentioned in the song making it a notorious smuggling route back in the day.

  • @sleepyvinegar
    @sleepyvinegar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This reminds me Foxy and Pirate!England

    • @nichoraptor
      @nichoraptor 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pirate!England! :D

    • @bipedalnarwhal277
      @bipedalnarwhal277 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @100,000 Subs, No Content Amen good sir

  • @katerinai.salazar9566
    @katerinai.salazar9566 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Omg! ( g stands for goodness) IM INLOVE WITH THIS SONG! It reminds me of pirate England!

    • @angelinacutler1009
      @angelinacutler1009 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Katerina I Salazar you know theirs a amv of this song staring pirate england

    • @brittneyellis8424
      @brittneyellis8424 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      100,000 Subs, No Content dude you really need to get a life they’re just referring to a dumb anime video that’s popular with this song it’s njot hard to figure out, no need to sound like a broken record

  • @nonuvurbeeznus795
    @nonuvurbeeznus795 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song takes place in modern times.

  • @PyroGothNerd
    @PyroGothNerd ปีที่แล้ว

    So it's a pirate version of Ballad of Thunder Road

  • @thequeenofchurros359
    @thequeenofchurros359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The pirate England video has more views than this song ..z

  • @torsionsshear9554
    @torsionsshear9554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A saga of Kaptain Jack Black Snow Owl from the Long Lost Viking Isles known only as die Stein ;)

  • @s_k_y_l_l_e_t
    @s_k_y_l_l_e_t 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fuckin love pirates...

  • @KitsuneAdorable
    @KitsuneAdorable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kinda makes me wanna play Assassins Creed Black Flag again. 🤔

    • @-Trusty
      @-Trusty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everything makes me want to play black flag again.

  • @BreezyWinter7
    @BreezyWinter7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    omg this is a pretty great song but everyone needs to calm down.

  • @hiipurr
    @hiipurr 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The pirate enland comments make me happy. Also I like the song too!

  • @TropicalNeyy
    @TropicalNeyy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    j'ai besoin d'essayer ce purfume ive entendu ma marraine qui vit à paris en parler beaucoup en disant que c'est bon

  • @willyking5611
    @willyking5611 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    French Perfume

  • @amberdenker8655
    @amberdenker8655 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    which foxy story is it from

  • @jenx8842
    @jenx8842 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dancers

  • @ligthoakberry4440
    @ligthoakberry4440 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2024 ?

  • @runachan5127
    @runachan5127 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Voy a ser sincera, un fanfic de FNAF hace como 5 o 7 años me hizo oír esta joyita.

  • @KaiHakuRei
    @KaiHakuRei 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Watching One Piece while listening to this song XD

    • @haleyreigle9468
      @haleyreigle9468 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      KaiHakuRei That's such a good idea! If anything, I can imagine a drunk Shanks spewing it

    • @silverseth7
      @silverseth7 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait, which opening? There's like 18 of them now.

    • @parkeranquist543
      @parkeranquist543 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      KaiHakuRei I

  • @gabys.h3687
    @gabys.h3687 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lel, pirate england jfnwfjwjjfw this Is beautiful

  • @emilykovalovsky775
    @emilykovalovsky775 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All I can think of is Foxy and Pirate England XD

  • @PokewolfGuardian
    @PokewolfGuardian 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    FOXY COME LISTEN TO THIS >:D

  • @valentinosomerset6007
    @valentinosomerset6007 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I got here from a foxy fan fiction.

  • @gracebourelle2913
    @gracebourelle2913 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Foxy you need to hear dis!!!!
    Foxy: (walks in) okay I be coming
    Ok I play it right now
    After Foxy hears the song
    So....do u like it
    Foxy:I be lovin` it lass!!! In fact I might just put this ere song in me show
    Really!!! I would love to see the performance
    Foxy: Then it be settled! I will be askn` Freddy if e can add it!!!
    yay!
    Foxy: haar haar haar!!
    This is my first time trying to pretend I was talking to foxy so I mightv messed up some of the pirate talk.

    • @emilykovalovsky775
      @emilykovalovsky775 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would love to see Foxy's performance with this too X3

    • @gracebourelle2913
      @gracebourelle2913 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      IKR!!! OMGosh

    • @emilykovalovsky775
      @emilykovalovsky775 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Grace Bourelle yeah it would be really awesome

    • @bembus8616
      @bembus8616 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its okay ^3^ everybody's gets nervous or is bad when they start.Even me

    • @gracebourelle2913
      @gracebourelle2913 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      thxs for the support!! and I bet your great!

  • @SunBurntSoandSo
    @SunBurntSoandSo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Weebs

  • @apollograyling-hastur3995
    @apollograyling-hastur3995 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I came here on a link from a FNAF fanfic

    • @iveswrld
      @iveswrld 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same XD

    • @mechnaprime3637
      @mechnaprime3637 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did that happen and what fanfic was it?

    • @angeladenker9588
      @angeladenker9588 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mechna Prime you cant escape the past

    • @nemo_tiger
      @nemo_tiger 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fiona Hart Same

  • @mskirazz12
    @mskirazz12 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    OMG THIS DEFINETLY FOXY'S THEME

  • @Lilytrabbit
    @Lilytrabbit 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just read the commits most people think of pirate england .... can't blame them tho🙄

  • @TropicalNeyy
    @TropicalNeyy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    j'ai besoin d'essayer ce purfume ive entendu ma marraine qui vit à paris en parler beaucoup en disant que c'est bon