Standard (EADGBE)

 Intro

Verse 1

 I was born under the stars,

 Never meant to journey far

From all the faces and the place

 That I called home

 And my father lived the same

 And his father before him

But now I see in my son's eyes

 Something has changed

 And the smoke it has stopped rising

 From the chimney up the road

 And the light no longer shines over the door

 Last year I lent a hand

 The haul the boats unto the land

 They've been lyin' there for nineteen months Or more

 And I wonder will they lie there evermore

Verse 2

 Wasn't many years ago

 That the men 'round here would go

 Out in there skiffs and haul their traps out on the bay

 And then shortly they'd return

 Loaded down from stem to stern

And we'd off the fish then stow the gear away

 Now the waters are as barren

 As the cliff that guard the cove

 And catch the north wind blowin' off the shore

 And I wonder how an ocean

 Turns as lifeless as a stone

 And I wonder can the sea revive once more

 And I wonder will they lie there evermore

Solo

Verse 3

 Well I hear some people say

 We'd be better off to stay ashore

 And train for jobs outside the fishery

 Now wouldn't I look like a fool?

 To go traipsin' off to school

 After forty years of livin' of the sea

 Now my son he's barely twenty-one

 And handy at the trawl

 For years he helped my fish the Labrador

 Now he's movin' to Ontario before the first snowfall

 Dad theirs nothin' left for me 'round here no more

 And I wonder will I see his children born

 And I wonder will they lie there evermore

THAIR YA GO

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