title: Mussels in the Corner
text: # Mussels in the Corner
  
  Mussels in the Corner is a Newfoundland folk song.
  
  In 2005, nine hundred and eighty-nine musicians gathered in St. John's at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival to play "Mussels in the Corner" on accordions to set a world record for simultaneous accordion playing.
  
  ## Lyrics
  
  Mussels in the Corner
  
  Chorus:
  
      'Deed I is in love with you
      Up all night in the foggy dew
      'Deed I is in love with you
      Mussels in the corner
      Ask a townie for a smoke
      He will say his pipe is broke
      Ask a bayman for a chew
      He will bite it off for you
      (chorus)
      Dirty shirts and dirty ties
      Dirty rings around their eyes
      Can't get up the morning b'ys
      Dirty auld Torbaymen
      (chorus)
      Here they are as white as ghosts
      Baymen in their little boats
      Women in their petticoats
      Down in Petty Harbour
      (chorus)
      I took Liza to the ball
      Liza couldn't dance at all
      nailed her up against the wall
      left her there till sunday
      (chorus)
      All the people in Belle Isle
      Don't get up till half past nine
      Wash their face in kerosene oil
      Polly, you're a corker!
      (chorus)
      Elsie Murray, she's so fine,
      Don't get up til half past nine
      Won't get up to feed the swine
      Dirty Elsie Murray.
      'Deed I is in love with you
      Up all night in the foggy dew
      'Deed I is in love with you
      Mussels in the corner
  