Career
He was nicknamed the "Bard of Prescott Street", and wrote many popular songs that artists in the 1930s and 1940s released. Popular songs by Burke include:
The Night Paddy Murphy Died
Cod Liver Oil
Murphy Broke The Pledge
Who Shipped The Moonshine To Saint John"s
The Spring Maurice Crotty Fought The Old Dog-hood
The Kelligrews Soiree
The Trinity Cake
Never Been There Before
Betsy Brennan"s Blue Hen
Excursion Around The Bay
Little Boneen
The Flemings Of Torbay
The Hat My Father Wore
The Landfall Of Cabot
The Sealers Gained The Strike
The Valley Of Kilbride
Some contend that he also wrote I"s the B"y.