NODS 'N WINKS

(KEVIN)
Newfoundland generally speaking you know 
Got colorful language like that haven't they 
I mean 
Anybody here from abroad who can't understand us tonight 
Ah 
Don't mind speakin up 
Yes 
That's all you got to say 
Yes

(RAY)
You were talking about Toronto over there 
Weren't you?

(KEVIN)
Yes b'y

(RAY)
That's where the pace is really fast isn't it?

(KEVIN)
Yes b'y 
My son 
It's nothing when you're in Toronto 
You can't say hello

(RAY)
No

(KEVIN)
To people in Toronto 
The same way you can to people in Newfoundland

(RAY)
Impossible

(KEVIN)
You can't do it see because you just take the subway station for instance 
Two thousand of them goes by you in ten seconds flat 
In order to say hello to all them 
You got to turn your Nods N' Winks up on bust 
Bllllllllll 
Take the head off your shoulder 
Wears out the neck too fast
I mean we were going downtown Toronto sure 
For God sakes 
Saying hello to this one 
Saying hello to that one 
But they don't say hello back 
I mean 
You're going down the road 
You go, t t 
"Hello buddy"



(RAY)
But Kevin 
Ah
You do get the odd one

(KEVIN)
Oh 
Sure 
You gets the odd one 
But very odd they are 
Ah hu, hu hu hu 
Hospital miracles
You know the kind 
And of course there's more
You know 
Like
"How you doing buddy?" 
"Got a buck?" 
There's that kind 
And of course 
You know 
There's the odd one 
Like 
The odd fellow that has been away to long 
He's fellow Newfoundlander who been on the streets of Toronto 
And right from across the street 
He comes right back at you 
You see 
"How you doing buddy?" 
"How you getting on buddy?" 
"Look Newfoundland look, ha ha ha ha!"  
Ties some good there for a while there wouldn't it old man 
Come right back down to the earth then 
You know

(RAY)
But when we left Toronto 
And come on the boat 
We met this incredible character 
Wouldn't he something

(KEVIN)
Yes b'y 
Boys from Toronto are not that bad 
It's just that they haven't got there 
Their, their head in reality 
I mean 
We took one fellow down 
He had a pair of pants on like scissors 
And he had sort of yellow and green hair 
That was sort of gone sort of like a banana on the top of the head 
Kind of thing 
And like we brought him down into the fish plant in Salvage and he just didn't mix, you know. 
Didn't quite know how to get along with the b'ys 
You know 
You know what I'm saying 
We had a fellow come down with us from Toronto 
He used to poke fun at us 
"Hey Newfie guy" 
That's what he called us 
Because you got to watch the accent in Toronto 
It's kind of thick 
"Hey Newfie guy, wow, got any big buildings back on the island like that?" 
And I said to him 
I said, "Yes cocky we do", "Wha? Oh come off it, not like that." 
I said, "Yes buddy, but we lay them on there sides and call them shopping malls!" 
It's all in the way you think about it, isn't it? 
Horizontal thinking 
That's what I call it.