The Idiot - Stan Rogers (Cover) + Bonus Verse by Seth Staton Watkins

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The Idiot - Stan Rogers (Cover) + Bonus Verse by Seth Staton Watkins
The original TikTok of this song has over 2 million views at this point which is absurd and I have received numerous requests to make a full version so here it is! I added the harmony that David Coffin (the chanty man) added in a TikTok duet and I added a verse at the end. As much as I love Stan Rogers, this song never sat right with me. I believe it presents a false dichotomy, to either be a slave to a capitalist overlord or a beggar taking handouts. There is a third option. A world in which the riches of the refineries and mines, offices and manufacturing plants, are shared equally among those who labor within, and not hoarded by distant despots that all too often sacrifice in the name of profit those who labor. I hope you enjoy my rendition of The Idiot by Stan Rogers.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I often take these night shift walks
When the foreman’s not around
I turn my back on the cooling stacks
And make for open ground
Far out beyond the tank-farm fence
Where the gas flare makes no sound
I forget the stink and I always think
Back to that Eastern town
[Verse 2]
I remember back six years ago
This western life I chose
And every day the news would say
Some factory’s going to close
Well, I could have stayed to take the dole
But I’m not one of those
[Refrain]
I take nothing free, and that makes me
An idiot, I suppose
[Verse 3]
So I bid farewell to the Eastern town
I never more will see
But work I must so I eat this dust
And breathe refinery
Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams
And I don’t like cowboy clothes
[Refrain]
But I like being free, and that makes me
An idiot, I suppose
[Verse 4]
So come all you fine young fellows
Who’ve been beaten to the ground
This western life’s no paradise
But it’s better than lying down
Oh the streets aren’t clean, and there’s nothing green
And the hills are dirty brown
But the government dole will rot your soul
Back there in your home town
[Verse 5]
So bid farewell to the Eastern town
You never more will see
There’s self-respect and a steady cheque
In this refinery
You will miss the green and the woods and streams
And the dust will fill your nose
[Refrain]
But you’ll be free, and that makes me
An idiot, I suppose
[Bonus Verse]
These are the words I tell myself
When I miss my own hometown
I tell myself that I'm doing right
by turning that welfare down
But now I see for you and me
That I want those woods and streams
For I owe my life to this workers strife
Why can't I just be free

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@ebjeezer 2 месяца назад

I am a Nova Scotian, the son of a Coal Miner who was the son of a Coal Miner, who was the son of a Fisherman, and I am VERY VERY PROUD OF IT! These men were honest to a fault, never missed a days work, and were as tough as nails. In the 70s and 80s it was tough times in the Maritimes and the call to go out west took a lot of people away. I am a huge fan of Stan Rogers and the lessons he was telling through his music. Thankyou for keeping this amazing song and the memory of Stan alive. You are fantastic and love your version of this song. You have gained a new fan tonight.

@CharlesTheViking 2 дня назад

Nova Scotian myself too, son of a office worker. But I have always been a labourer, its in my blood. I can't work from a chair.

@MrRossNL 2 года назад

I found my new "Play on repeat while staring out of a window out into the distance with a blank look" song!

@TorontoCanada5 2 года назад

That last verse. I've been a blue collar work my whole life, it's all I know, and I do it well. This song in general captures that feeling but that last verse hits home, and hits hard. I've only heard it twice but both times it has brought me to tears and I don't think it ever won't

@sethstatonwatkins 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing friend

@randyconrad4155 2 года назад

@@sethstatonwatkins not going to lie. Hearing there'd be an extra verse made me cringe. Heard the verse and honestly Im going to add it when I sing this song.

@Rixoli 2 года назад

@@randyconrad4155 And moments like these are often the best compliment one can give an artist, alot of times a cover can change lyrics about and still make a 'good' song. It's rare to find a line that actually makes the song even better, not to mention on a Stan Rogers song. Well done Seth!

@Fwibos 2 года назад

That last verse isn't in the original. it's just him editorializing.

@randyconrad4155 2 года назад

@@Fwibos we know

@DragonsSongStudios 14 дней назад

Stan Rogers would be proud to hear you sing this. Your vocals are amazing! You truly brought him back to life.

@robsealsey5052 2 года назад

I don't think Stan wrote this, as many have suggested, not believing his own words. I believe he simply understood the hard reality of what life can be, and the haunting sadness of a life left behind to find something that could not exist before. The viewpoint of the song is definitively of someone who isn't necessarily happy about the choice they had to make, but is still opposed to the people calling him the, "Idiot," for moving West and taking up a hard living just to be free. I think he understood it was a hard choice, and one that many would ridicule as foolish for what they saw as potentially little gain. Stan also, and I would say rightly, points out that laziness, bitterness, arrogance, and dependence rot people inside and out. When I listen to this song, or Mary Ellen Carter, or many of Stan's works, I hear the thinking of someone who believed had work and a healthy degree of self reliance was liberating, and helped avoid the poison mentioned above, not ridiculing them as foolish, or writing for classist rhetoric.

@noahberg101 2 года назад

as someone in trade school going into machining I love the original it's about a man who doesn't want any help from the government and feels he can earn his own and owe no one. I respect that and hope to be like that. but that last verse is what I hope for in retirement and when I own my own shop. nice green hills and streams for me to sit and enjoy. I just like being a productive person and feel I need to earn my share instead of asking for it which I understand not all can do.

@austinmoulton490 2 года назад

That last sentence is exactly what the original writer intended to say

@dakotastein9499 Год назад

the song also hints at the harsh realities of the fact that weather your on a government check or a company payroll you are still under somebodie's thumb. ive known poeple who have worked thier entire lives only to have nothing to show for it . good work ethic and a productive aditude are important,but it will be exploited and tooken advantage of almost every time.

@Danawesomy567 Год назад

The original song was rooted in proletarian irony. One of the last stanzas hints at a lament of the worker’s life. “Oh the streets aren’t clean and there’s nothin’ green and the hills are dirty brown.” “Oh you’ll miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose. But you’ll be free and *just like me* an idiot, I suppose” The POV character regrets where he ends up but is simply too proud to “take the dole”. This doesn’t mean the POV character *wants* the life he is forcing himself to live. Seth’s stanza was a rather “on the nose” addition of what Stan Rogers was implying throughout the song. Not to say there’s anything wrong with your worldview. By all means if you can get by on your own and don’t want government support, go for it. If I was well off enough, I wouldn’t want government support either.

@bigawesomewatermelon9511 Год назад

@@Danawesomy567 whining about trading one sad miserable life for another said miserable life. Passive-aggressively saying that you're better than everyone who didn't make the choice you did. Not saying that he wasn't trying to convey the message you say he was, but this song does a poor job of conveying that message if he was. It's a whiny song, about whining. Nothing wrong with that. A lot, lot of folk songs are about whining.

@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924 Год назад

@@Danawesomy567@bigawesomewatermelon9511 Stan Rogers was already on the nose with the song. Mr. Watkins put a radio tower on the proletariat irony and decorated it like a Christmas Tree.

@shadowmage36 Год назад

There's no replacing Stan, but goddamn, I did not expect to be openly weeping on a Wednesday while driving to work. Well done! That last verse is a damn fine addition.

@gapdragon01 2 года назад

Stan Rogers is such a treasure! Thank you for bringing him to life one again.

@jackloder5691 2 года назад

Fuck man, you got me tearing up on my 15min break. Great cover and I love the bonus verse. Gotta go fix my face and get back on the floor now

@adamantineshining 2 года назад

As an atlantic canadian and a longtime Stan Rogers fan... absolutely stunning.

@bupkissknarbler4261 2 года назад

Ive been working class all my life. I loved it and its all i know. But the knowing we are being used and seeing that in my dad and granddad's life, knowing how they worked and how Ive worked and how bad we are being screwed over. We all want to do better for those around us and for society. That's used for the worst things. We are used for the worst things. Its used to oppress us. Its damn sickening. Thank you for putting these words where folks can hear them.

@WojciechP915 7 месяцев назад

Worked in heavy industry my whole life and feel like I'm forty at twenty five and this song hits home.

@poellot 7 месяцев назад

Awesome, that last verse is just 100 percent truth. I work as a truck fleet mechanic, when the government shut everything down during covid, i told my wife, we will be fine because ill never go a day without work so we will get by because i am more essential than any other job in the world . She was laid off because she was a waitress. Then she collected from the government and was making more than me by staying home everyday. yes i may be a genius but i felt like an idiot. Still working the same blue collar job for 14 year.

@clowkey1747 2 года назад

Both versions of this song hit very close to home. I’m proud of the work I’m doing, but being so far from home and far from loved ones is very painful.

@kimberlymichelle1188 2 года назад

I commented on TikTok but I want to elaborate here. I said your voice reminded me of nights around the campfire when it was just my family, loved ones and I. My family would always go camping during the summer and my mom and I would lead sing alongs. So many amazing memories. We lost mom back in 2013. So thank you so much for helping me to remember those amazing memories. Keep making music. You're magic.

@sethstatonwatkins Год назад

That means a lot. Thank you.

@GardensAndGames 2 года назад

If Stan were alive today I don't know what he'd think of your extra verse. He understood on some level what greed and pollution had done to his beloved Canadian fisheries. I'd like to think that the solidarity with the common man would strike a chord in his heart. All I know is that I love your addition, and it makes me love the original song more.

@GHefly445 2 года назад

Yeah i don’t think he would really care for the last line too much. The cause is not capitalism, its regulations put on the factories. Workers also made huge amounts of money. Ive heard stories of people making upwards of 200,000 dollars working on steel mills.

@austinmoulton490 2 года назад

@@GHefly445 I disagree. Because after releasing this song, Stan went and wrote the chemical worker song. Which is very avidly anti-capitalist greed and pro regulation.

@GHefly445 2 года назад

@@austinmoulton490 Says who? Ive looked it up and it appears he never even covered the song let alone wrote it.

@GHefly445 2 года назад

@@austinmoulton490 It was wrote by Ron Angel. I dont know where u heard Stan rogers wrote this song.

@GHefly445 2 года назад

@@austinmoulton490 it appears he was at the very least a socially conservative guy that thought masculinity was a very important value. He never talked about politics so i think its a bit disrespectful to turn him into a socialist songwriter which he was most likely not.

@ten-xlegacy4033 3 дня назад

Yeah you've near instantly become one of my favorite singers. You have an incredible voice and you're sharing important historical songs, and apparently also updating them? Xé salüo, comarade

@ten-xlegacy4033 3 дня назад

Yeah.. listened again and it made me tear up.. thank you for your work.

@scottdoherty7531 2 года назад

I miss my town, I hate the city, and I don't even make good money. I should just go back.

@sapherno11 2 года назад

That last verse....you carried the soul of the song on. There's such a sense of.... Poignancy and loss.... It is a rare artist who can inspire so many emotions with such a short verse.

@huntercole5470 2 года назад

You summed up the last 5yrs of my life and made a tear roll down my cheek Great song man

@siegehammer63 2 года назад

I'm lying in a bed in camp, 15 minutes from an oilsands refinery. I never got the song, or the sacrifices of the hard tough men who do this job. I stink. I'm covered in grit and dried sweat and I'm about to go grab my laundry and shower, and get up at 5 in the morning to do it again for the eighteenth day in a row. The only thing worse than this would be not being able to care for the people I love.

@markdavidmagat9866 5 месяцев назад

Love the orginal but this takes it up a notch for me just for that last verse. The original I felt was very much "pick yourself up by the bootstraps and make it your own way! On your own!" but that last verse adds a retrospective on the idea that most of us have faced. At the end of the journey and the job, what was it all for? Now you find yourself with riches but who's left standing beside you in this dirty decrepite place. The longing for home, the longing for the people you love and love you back comes flooding in. And you ask yourself, was this worth it? Beautiful rendition and I think elevates the song!

@sethstatonwatkins 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing friend

@Sparks29252 2 года назад

Absolutely stunning coda to the whole song. I agree that this one never sat right (for the opposite view look up The Chemical Workers Song). Taken with his other work I don't think Stan fully intended how this one came across, he wanted to be working, to be of use, and not doing so would grate on him. That said yeah this one doesn't read great. Amazing addition and worthy of the original singer.

@joeamerican3947 2 года назад

The chemical worker song has been my theme song for awhile.

@Rrss369 2 года назад

Seth did a short of the chemical worker’s song on Tiktok

@Sparks29252 2 года назад

@@Rrss369 and an excellent one at that.

@noahberg101 2 года назад

I personally like both. one is about a man contempt with life he likes work and wouldn't ask for a more. the other is about a man abused by work he's down on his luck in the harsh working conditions. like two sides of a coin

@makky-kat3719 2 года назад

@@Rrss369 I don't even have a Tiktok, but I went, looked it up, and now I think we need a full cover of that one.

@ramiramadan3578 3 месяца назад

SETH REMINDS ME WHEN I WAS YOU AND RENT MY FIRST APARTMENT IN BROOKLYN NY ON THE TOP OF IRISH BAR I WAS UNABLE TO SLEEP ESPECIALLY ON WEEKENDS BUT SURPRISINGLY THE IRISH MUSIC BECAME MY MOTHER SONGS FOR ME TO SLEEP WHEN I WAS SMALL

@MikeRiley84 Год назад

There is no loss of self-respect in accepting government assistance. Sometimes we just need a hand to get out of the place we're in and that is what it is there for. If you need the help, take it. If you can and want to, work. We're all just trying to get by the best we can. Government assistance changed my life; I am independent today because it was there when I needed it.

@Mr.Sp1ze 10 месяцев назад

All the government has done for me is demand I pay that money back.

@jellyfishing22 3 месяца назад

To be robbed with taxes just for the government to give me pity ad a couple pennies, turns sorrow into a grudge. I get your message dont get me wrong but in this case and many others the heart of the problem starts and ends with the gov. Being helped by a community can be uplifting, being taken care of by the state after pleading your case to bureaucracy to stop them from making your livelihood impossible and them finally feeling they have to capitulate to the needs of the people is abhorrent. You should have a housing market that isn't hostile to those making under six figures, health insurance should be an arm and a leg or put you in debt if you dont have it when you break a bone, and the general population shouldn't need government assistance, if they do that is a sign the gov messed up the first time they said "I'm with the government and im here to help". I lose respect for the government when they edge in any way towards communism

@phoenix5384 2 года назад

This has to be one of the best covers of any song I've heard, and the bonus verse adds a ton of additional nuance to it that only makes the original version better

@MsLovieGirl Год назад

Wow!! This blows me away! He has such a great voice.

@alizaellner3696 2 года назад

The nuance your rendition brings to this song... Once again, amazing work.

@MrFPRdz 2 года назад

this is perfect. Update: I wrote the comment above before finishing the video, once I heard the last verse tears welled in my eyes. Oh God.

@Dimetropteryx 2 года назад

Straight into my favorites it goes.

@stamrly418 2 месяца назад

Lovely rendition of a working man’s plight . Toil gives an inner feeling of usefulness, this song shows there is no paradise. “Work I Must….”

@limeyndixie 2 года назад

Stan Rogers had a keen awareness of the community and culture he lived in. His sentiments would, I firmly believe, have changed had he seen what the labor and union movement has become. Not to mention the increase in their repression and exploitation. Self respect? None to be found anymore without solidarity. And the third path, as you say, is beginning to loom larger as the workers’ last and only hope. Brilliant rendition, mate. Thank you.

@sethstatonwatkins 2 года назад

Well said my friend

@adamxei9073 2 года назад

I feel this way sometimes. Thanks for singing this Seth.

@quinncowden2711 2 года назад

Personally, I've always felt that this song has the emotions of someone who doesn't really believe their own words, like someone trying to justify a decision their heart isn't in. I feel like your last verse captured that "I should not have done that" feeling, and really lays out the meaning of the song. Good work, love to see it on spotify

@sethstatonwatkins 2 года назад

Agreed friend

@GHefly445 2 года назад

Yeah, i would agree with you except for the sureness in Stan’s voice and the harsh words he uses. I feel the songs more about him retelling his life experiences and convincing young men to make something of themselves.

@princeblackelf4265 13 дней назад

No, Rogers a hundred percent believed in those lyrics and meant what he said. Those were very much Roger's values he was singing in that song. Like it or not, the extra verse very much is not in line with the soul of the original song is kind of an arrogant " I'll do it better"

@seanhalloran8677 2 года назад

Here are the lyrics yall I often take these night shift walks When the foreman’s not around I turn my back on the cooling stacks And make for open ground Far out beyond the tank-farm fence Where the gas flare makes no sound I forget the stink and I always think Back to that Eastern town I remember back six years ago This western life I chose And every day the news would say Some factory’s going to close Well, I could have stayed to take the dole But I’m not one of those I take nothing free, and that makes me An idiot, I suppose So I bid farewell to the Eastern town I never more will see But work I must so I eat this dust And breathe refinery Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams And I don’t like cowboy clothes But I like being free, and that makes me An idiot, I suppose So come all you fine young fellows Who’ve been beaten to the ground This western life’s no paradise But it’s better than lying down Oh the streets aren’t clean, and there’s nothing green And the hills are dirty brown But the government dole will rot your soul Back there in your home town So bid farewell to the Eastern town You never more will see There’s self-respect and a steady cheque In this refinery You will miss the green and the woods and streams And the dust will fill your nose But you’ll be free, and that makes me An idiot, I suppose These are the words I tell myself When I miss my own hometown I tell myself that I'm doing right by turning that welfare down But now I see for you and me That I want those woods and streams For I owe my life to this workers strife Why can't I just be free

@audreysghost6744 Год назад

Wow, honestly this is a BEAUTIFUL way to honor a classic. Truly moving. ☘️

@markhammond690 2 года назад

Never heard this version before. That tune reminds me of moving from Georgia to Kansas twice to find work.

@hotterotter 8 месяцев назад

Nobody going to mention that awesome sweater? Dude's rocking it!

@Jamie1317kast 2 года назад

Long-time Stan Rogers fan! Love the addition!

@persianprince6213 2 года назад

Me too, it was excellent

@ww32 2 года назад

Randomly listening to this at work for the time, having heard Stan Rodgers original countless times, I was not expecting the verse you added to the end. I’ve never come so close to crying in front of my coworkers…

@hrrawr Год назад

Including the extra verse for clarification definitely does detract from the ironic, contemptuous tone of the song in itself, but I still appreciate what you did for trying your hand at NOT leaving that out instead!

@Aidames 3 месяца назад

This is such an excellent cover of the original! Makes me teary eyed every time. One small criticism, if I may: the lyrics of the last original verse are "but you'll be free, and *just like me*, and idiot, I suppose". It's a very critical piece of the song. But again, thank you very much for blessing all of our ears with your rendition of this great song!

@ava490 2 года назад

The first time I heard this song I cried. And here I am listening to your version crying again at that added verse. You did an amazing job

@thebullfrog9416 2 года назад

Can you do the man from the daily mail

@persianprince6213 2 года назад

Up the RA!!!

@ronmcc100 Год назад

Thanks for posting this! It's good to see that Stan Rogers legacy will never be forgotten, and your touches are tasteful and in the same style. Well done! Keep up the good work!

@philiphamel8504 2 года назад

This was the song that introduced me to your work. I'm so happy this cover is here

@Omnicide101 2 года назад

closing it off with a call for proletarian liberation is absolutely iconic

@TheEDBShow 2 года назад

Is it me or does this song have the same chord progression as I Wanna Be in the Cavalry?

@sethstatonwatkins 2 года назад

It does! This is the original. Cavalry came after.

@Lee-nd4yf Год назад

Not the same place but the same feeling. Living out in the red dust desert of Australia on an iron ore mine 10000km from my green forested home .... no reminders of home here though ... just the longing

@mycenaeangal9312 15 дней назад

Maaaaan, you can get homesick anywhere. I've moved around a lot too. You leave pieces of your heart with the people and places you're separated from. I don't know if it ever gets any easier cause even if you go back home, you're probably gonna miss things about being out west. Hope you're doing alright a year later.

@Telnan Год назад

I've been an industrial worker my whole life, always been hard for me to show feelings and stuff. Listening to this version for the first time, i teared up! Love it, and thank you for this beautiful piece of music!

@tbsupratom7232 2 года назад

I love Stan Rogers, you should cover more of his songs

@jacobprudent4354 2 года назад

I have listened to this at least 20 times. It is perfect 🥰

@alexhickey8869 2 года назад

You introduced this song to me on TikTok. And it has been one of my favorite songs, and I was so disappointed that you never made a full version. You’ve made me extremely happy now. Keep on rockin on, brother.

@Nobert594 2 года назад

How do you sing so good????? Like it's flawless what the fudge

@tin117man9 2 года назад

I always come back to this song. This to me is the best version of this song. Don’t get me wrong I always liked the original. But this one always has me coming back!

@balasaashti3146 2 года назад

Damn can relate when I moved from Utah to New Mexico at first didn't like it but I began to love the freedom coming from living away from any city. I miss the mountains during winter and fall but I love going out with my two rescue dogs I found as pups close to death on the reservation. Out in the desert with your dogs a rifle and the hot sun above you is something I fell in love with.

@Alzmith 14 дней назад

This is beautiful.

@themangledwither Год назад

When I first heard this song I was working at my towns local family fare (grocery store) I was the "service clerk" basically I had to do everything that I didn't sign up for like trash cleaning the floors windows vacuuming taking care of recycling. I signed up to bag groceries and bring carts in. The last verse you added really hit me when I was singing this one day there as I realised that this was the di summer I wasn't up north with my grandma like I was last year and the year before that. I left that job a few weeks later I now work sanitation at a casino I get decent pay and great insurance but it's not what I want to do. I want to sing and act for people I want to be on stage or the big screen

@supermansdaddy7019 Год назад

Always try to sneak in time for your passion. It's easier said than done, and it'll take time and luck.

@CausticSalsa 2 года назад

Imagine if billionaires allowed themselves to make 12% less and people could actually get payed a living wage. Wouldn’t that be something.

@tora0neko 2 года назад

Boss makes a dollar, I don't even make a dime. That's why I strike on company time

@persianprince6213 2 года назад

nice rhyme, on company time?

@persianprince6213 2 года назад

lol

@hannahpittman5379 2 года назад

Every time I hear your songs, I just can't upvote it enough 😭😭😭 I love your music so much! Thank you for all you do!!

@mikuhatsune184 2 года назад

Your voice is absolutely gorgeous on its own, but when you harmonize…DAMN. That last verse is also perfect for this song. Thank you for another beautiful cover!

@connorwheatley5640 Год назад

I've always wondered what one should make of the narrator of this song. On one hand I think his choice to stick to his principles is admirable and I think that there is a certain allure to living off of one's own work without being held up or assisted by an outside entity, yet at the same time the picture the narrator paints is a pretty grim existence and at certain points it sounds like he's trying to justify the decision to move out West to himself, like he's unsure if he made the right decision. regardless your take on the song was enjoyable as always.

@sethstatonwatkins Год назад

I agree. Up for interpretation.

@leslieunderwood3520 2 года назад

Thank you for this outstanding cover of a Canadian icon, Stan Rogers, tune.

@lukeo9487 2 года назад

Well, I cried, so there’s that. Absolutely beautifully done. Hoping to see it on Spotify.

@isaiahbasaldua924 Год назад

The songs of the working class inspire me always as member of the working class I understand our plit. We build it all but at what cost to our bodies and our lives. Beautiful poetry

@mazerunner1054 10 месяцев назад

I could go on about the recent life and job troubles I'm going through, but really, they don't matter. What does, is your take on the song and the simple and dignified performance of it. So, for that - thank you.

@poftchen9340 2 года назад

Random rant when far far to into my cups For me Stan Rogers is the most influential artist in my life, though I wouldn’t say he’s my favorite (for sure up there). And while I absolutely love your music, and your rambling rover cover and IRA music is on my daily listen list, I had advoided this one for a lot of personal reasons. You did amazing and I find the last verse extremely fitting. Now we just have to convince you to do Canol road or Athens queen

@minimalgrammar1276 2 года назад

Why does this sound like I Wanna Be In The Cavalry?

@MatsJPB 2 года назад

Awesome! I've listened to it six times back to back now. It's the bonus verse that elevates it!

@powerup3005 Год назад

That last verse hits hard, great job

@letsgobrandontrump2024 2 года назад

FUCKEN beautiful vocal efforts (And heaps talent too) can’t complement you gents enough

@ShineyTrayCosplay 2 года назад

Thanks! I absolutely love listening to you! With love from Texas

@sethstatonwatkins 2 года назад

Wow, thank you!

@trevordenver9877 2 года назад

I live in Edmonton and Im from the east....this its home hard

@Sewblon Год назад

In Roger's version the words in the final refrain were "You'll be free and just like me, an idiot I suppose." Changing it to "And that makes me, an idiot I suppose" doesn't make any sense, because it switches the subject from the audience back to the singer for no reason.

@sethstatonwatkins Год назад

Lol very minor detail.

@Ididrealstuffnotmadeupshit 11 месяцев назад

2019-21 I was an antipoaching instructor in a park in DRC but Covid messs it up and i endedd up as the security manager on a copper and cobalt ans mine just outside the park and due to the UK redzone quarantine I was stuck on the mine until it was over....thsi song related to me so much....now im back where i belong 😊

@genegene5339 2 года назад

My favorite Singer covering the Great Stan Rogers. Superb harmony.

@ryanforever90000 Год назад

I’d love to hear you cover the “workers song”

@KayLee-lw5iv 2 года назад

"When the foreman's not around" means a lot here

@MachGlacier 2 года назад

This is fantastic... don't stop

@skirmish23 Год назад

This gives me the goosebumps... I love your work, supporting you on Patreon BTW ❤

@sethstatonwatkins Год назад

Thank you!

@chiefjohnson2642 2 года назад

Love it bro...NZ🇳🇿✊🏽

@ryanforever90000 Год назад

Northwest passage? Maybe? I think everyone would love that.

@Rrss369 Год назад

He did an amazing collaboration with the Wellerman with the Northwest Passage! Check it out on their RU-vid You can also get it on Seth’s Spotify page or all streaming platforms. The wellerman featuring Seth Staton Watkins : Northwest Passage:)

@corybryant9513 2 года назад

Your voice is absolutely amazing. What a gift you have!

@nonyabeeznuss304 8 месяцев назад

From western Montana in the rockies, spent a lot of time in the desert pining away for my home forests and mountains (pun intended).

@Mikesman1000 Год назад

Damn, those worker songs hit hard, thank you.

@stardustsurfer2939 2 года назад

Love every second of this

@jasonmccain9544 2 года назад

Beautiful! Great job!

@SleepingPepper 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for writing that last verse. Really hammers on the point of the song which judging by this comment section, was completely missed by some people. The narrator is not proud and he knows he's in denial.