Bluenose

Bluenose     4/4     Stan Rogers
Standard Tuning  No Capo				Submitted by Ken Lee
Intro:						kandvlee@shaw.ca
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Once a - / gain with the tide, she / slips her lines,
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Turns her / head and comes a - / wake,
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Where she / lay so still there at / Privateers Wharf,
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Now she / quickly gathers / way,
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She will / range far / south of the / harbour mouth, and
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Re - / joice with every / wave, / /
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun.

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Feel her / bow rise free of / Mother sea,
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In a / sunburst cloud of / spray,
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That / stings the cheek, while the / rigging will speak
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Of / sea miles gone a - / way,
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She is / always best under / full press,
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Hard / over as she’ll / lay. / /

Chorus: @2
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun,

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The / proud past queen of the / Grand Banks fleet,
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Port - / rayed on every / dime,
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Knew / hard work in her / time,
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Hard / work in every / line.

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The / rich man’s toys o’ the / Gloucester boys,
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With their / token bit of / cod,
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They / snapped their spars and / strained to pass
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her / by,
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But she / left them all be - / hind,
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Now her namesake / daughter re - mains,
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To / show what she has / been.
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What every / school boy remembers, and
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Will not come a - / gain,
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To / think she’s the last of the / Grand Bank
schooners,
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That / fed so many / men. / /

Chorus: @2
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun./ /
Break:      Fiddle
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So does she / not take wing like a / living thing,
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Child of the moving / tide
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See her / pass with grace on the / water’s face
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With / clean and quiet / pride
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Our / own tall ship of / great renown,
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Still / lifts unto the / sky./ /
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
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Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun?
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Know the / Bluenose in the / sun, @ 3 ?