"I'ze the Bye", also known as "I's the Bye" or "I'se the B'y") is a traditional Newfoundland folk song. "I'ze the Bye" is in the Newfoundland English dialect, and translates to standard English a "I'm the Boy". This is perhaps the best generally known Newfoundland folk song. Although the song may have originated in the 1870s, probably in a Newfoundland fishing village, interest in "I'ze the Bye" did not spread outside Newfoundland until after the song was heard and transcribed by two researchers interested in Newfoundland's folk traditions. The Canadian folklorist Kenneth Peacock collected the song in 1951 from Lloyd Soper of St. John's. Gerald Doyle also collected and transcribed it. The towns of Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton’s Harbour and Bonavista are ports around Newfoundland. It was printed in Fowke and Johnston's Folk Songs of Canada (1954), Gerald Doyle's Old-Time Songs and Poetry of Newfoundland (1955), Lomax's Folk Songs of North America (1960), and Bok's Time and the Flying Snow (1977). It was recorded by Burl Ives, Gordon Bok on A Tune For November (1970), The STEP Fiddlers on Galing for a Storm, Great Big Sea on Great Big Sea and The Celtic Fiddlers and Ceilidh Singers on Passage (1999).