We'll be happy when the ice-worms nest again. IT WAS in the summer of , on a journey down the Mackenzie River, that I first heard that haunting chorus. I heard it again, just before freeze-up, at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island, in the cabin of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s schooner MacPherson, crooned by the late Otto Torrington, the orognebiztblurfac.chirouholtunutlonenetsterpapervie.infoinfo: RICHARD FINNIE.

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if she’ll wed me when the ice-worms nest a-gain. Refrain In the land of the pale blue snow, Where it’s ninety-nine below, And the polar bears are roaming o’er the plain. In the shadow of the pole I will clasp her to my soul. We’ll be married when the ice-worms nest again. 2. For our wedding feast we’ll have seal oil and blubber;.

Oct 10,  · "When the Ice Worms Nest Again." The favourite song of prospectors and trappers in the Canadian north, this ballad later became the theme song for the annual gatherings of silver miners at Cobalt, Ont, and fur trappers at The Pas, Man, as well.

WHEN THE ICE WORMS NEST AGAIN (Conceivably by Robert Service; in any case, an Alaskan tradition in the 20s and 30s. Recorded by Wilf Carter Montana Slim sometime in the s). There's a husky, dusky maiden in the Arctic And she waits for me but it is not in vain, For some day I'll put my mukluks on and ask her.

“When the Ice Worms Nest Again.” The favourite song of prospectors and trappers in the Canadian north, this ballad later became the theme song for the annual gatherings of silver miners at Cobalt, Ont, and fur trappers at The Pas, Man, as well.

Another literary example is the song “When The Ice Worms Nest Again,” an old Canadian song which even Robert Service later used as inspiration for a poem (of the same name) written for his “Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads” which was published during %(28).

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