Recorded by: Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers
Written by: Kevin Blackmore
Lyrics
Wait until the bay is froze, scrape and shovel off the snow
Well a scattered boy had skates, scattered tooth gone from his face
Wearing rubbers with no grips, pipes and planks for hockey sticks
Well I knows it wasn’t nice playing hockey on the ice
After school and Sunday too made no difference who was who
We had Rolie for the goalie, ’cause he was six foot two
Watch for Ralphie on his skates, couldn’t turn he’d just go straight
If he struck he’d take your life, playing shinny on the ice.
Oh when Harv or Bruce or Len, shifted the net and fired one in
Rolie beat him in the face but they was all the best of friends
If you had to use your fists, you kept on your woolly mitts
NHL got nuttin’ on fights to playing shinny on the ice.
Chorus:
Scunnin’ marbles in the mot, playing tiddley after school
Catching conners off the wharf, firing rocks like bloody fools
Copying pans out in the cove, killing frogs or rats or mice
But there wasn’t nothing better than playing hockey on the ice.
We had Bert for referee ’cause he saw one on TV
He made up all the rules, but no one gave a heed
And the worst one of the bunch, Tom would go home for his lunch
He’d do it just for spite, playing shinny on the ice
Brucie’s mother tanned his hide for wearing Sunday clothes outside
For falling in the rent or going off the edge of the ice
For swearing there was Harv, swinging fists right from the start
He was all bark no bite playing hockey on the ice.
Oh, when the day would end and the cold and wet would send
Every boy home to work, after supper then
We were soon all off to beds, the only thing in our heads
What we dreamt of every night was playing hockey on the ice.
Chorus:
Scunnin’ marbles in the mot, playing tiddley after school
Catching conners off the wharf, firing rocks like bloody fools
Copying pans out in the cove, killing frogs or rats or mice
But there wasn’t nothing better than playing hockey on the ice.
Playing hockey (hockey, hockey) on the bays or ponds or coves
Playing hockey (hockey, hockey) as everybody knows.
