History Music / StanRogers

* TheAllegedCar: The Antelope sloop in "Barrett's Privateers", which can barely sail and gets smashed into pieces with one cannonball.

* BadassBaritone: Stan sings in a warbly variation of this, and it really helped get across many of the shantys he sang.

* [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid "Become a Privateer", They Said]]: The Captain in "Barrett's Privateers" promises a cushy gig with no fighting and plenty of loot. Disaster ensues.

* DrinkingOnDuty / DrunkDriver: The captain in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''".

* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ship]]: The Antelope sloop in "Barrett's Privateers", which can barely sail and gets smashed into pieces with one cannonball.
-->''The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight\\
She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags\\
And the cook in the scuppers [[TheAlcoholic with the staggers 'n jags]]''

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We never actually get to see the Mary Ellen Carter "rise again," although the preparations for doing so are pretty awesome in and of themselves.

* TitleDrop: Rogers' first song, "Here's to You, Santa Claus", released as a single in 1970:
--> Here's to you, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny's next!

* [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid "Become a Privateer", They Said]]: The Captain in "Barrett's Privateers" promises a cushy gig with no fighting and plenty of loot. Disaster ensues.

* {{Determinator}}: After their ship is sunk in a storm and written off by the owners, the crew of "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" vow that she will rise again ... and through back-breaking labor and unbreakable will, make good on their promise. Stan then invites the audience to follow their example: "Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/ And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"

* Determinator: After their ship is sunk in a storm and written off by the owners, the crew of "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" vow that she will rise again ... and through back-breaking labor and unbreakable will, make good on their promise. Stan then invites the audience to follow their example: "Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/ And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"

* AntiChristmasSong: "First Christmas" isn't strictly anti-Christmas, but as Rogers believed Christmas was a time not just for celebration but for deep, sober reflection, it's depressing.

* TitleDrop: Rogers' first song called "Here's To You Santa Claus" released as a single in 1970:

* HeroicSacrifice: "The Flowers of Bermuda", about a captain who goes down with the ship so his crew can escape running aground.

** "MacDonnell on the Heights" is about how the eponymous Lieutenant-Colonel rallied his fellow Canadian soldiers after their general's death, thus setting the stage for victory before becoming mortally wounded himself. However, because of General Brock's greater rank and more notable demise in battle itself (MacDonnell succumbed to his wounds the next day), this sacrifice has been overshadowed in history.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: "[=MacDonnell=] on the Heights" tells of an unsung hero of the Battle of Queenston Heights, "but not one in ten thousand knows [his] name."

* HappilyMarried: The woman in "Lies": despite having become older and less conventionally beautiful, her husband still loves her face "line for line."

* HappilyMarried: The woman in "Lies", despite having become older and less beautiful.

--> Here's to you, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny's next!

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* HeavyMithril: While not heavy, ''The Witch of the Westmereland'' is about a knight with a WoundThatWillNotHeal who is blessed by a centaur witch to be invincible.
* HeroicSacrifice: ''The Flowers of Bermuda,'' about a captain who goes down with the ship so his crew can escape running aground.

* TakeThat: Ontario's tourism industry came out with the slogan "No place you'd rather be." Stan's response, from ''Watching the Apples Grow'':

** "White Collar Worker" is about a computer programmer.