Bluenose

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Once again with the tide she slips her line
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Turns her head and comes awake
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Where she lay so still there at Privateer’s Wharf
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Now she quickly gathers way
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She will range far south from the harbour mouth
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And rejoice 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 away
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She is always best under full press
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Hard over as she’ll lay
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And who will know the Bluenose in the sun?
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That proud, fast Queen of the Grand Banks Fleet
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Portrayed on every dime
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Knew hard work in her time…hard work in every line
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The rich men’s toys of 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 her by
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But she left them all behind
 
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Now her namesake daughter remains to show what she has been
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What every schoolboy remembers and will not come again
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To think she’s the last of the Grand Banks Schooners
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That fed so many men
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And who will know the Bluenose in the sun?
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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 still lifts unto the sky
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Who will know the Bluenose in the sun?
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