Big River (Jimmy Nail song) Big River (Jimmy Nail song) "Big River" is a song written and performed by Jimmy Nail and released on the album "Big River". It was released as a single in 1995. In 2011, it was recorded by Joe McElderry for the DVD, "Big River Big Songs: The Tyne". McElderry also performed it for "Sunday for Sammy" in 2012. The big river referred to in the title is the River Tyne that runs through Nail's home town, Newcastle upon Tyne. The song is an elegy to the days when shipbuilding and industry in general were at their height in Newcastle and
Big Black River (Saint John River tributary) at Van Buren, on January 19, 1925. The "Big Black River" is rooted in the Talon Township in the municipality of Sainte-Lucie-de-Beauregard, Quebec, in Notre Dame Mountains. This source is located at: From its source, the "Big Black River" flows on of which in Quebec and in Maine, according to the following segments: Upper course of the Big Black River (segment of in Quebec) Intermediate Course of the Great Black River (segment to Quebec, downstream of the Grand Black River East) Lower course of the Great Black River (segment of to Maine downstream of the Canada-US border) From the Canada-US