Bluenose 4/4 Stan Rogers Standard Tuning No Capo Submitted by Ken Lee Intro: [email protected] / Am / C Once a - / gain with the tide, she / slips her lines, / C / Am Turns her / head and comes a - / wake, / Am / C Where she / lay so still there at / Privateers Wharf, / F / Am Now she / quickly gathers / way, / Am / / C She will / range far / south of the / harbour mouth, and / C / D / / Re - / joice with every / wave, / / Am / C / F / / Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun. / / / Am / C Feel her / bow rise free of / Mother sea, / C / Am In a / sunburst cloud of / spray, / Am / C That / stings the cheek, while the / rigging will speak / F / Am Of / sea miles gone a - / way, / Am / C She is / always best under / full press, / C / D / / Hard / over as she'll / lay. / / Chorus: @2 Am / C / Am / / Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun, / / / Am / C The / proud past queen of the / Grand Banks fleet, / C / Am Port - / rayed on every / dime, / Am / D Knew / hard work in her / time, / F / Am Hard / work in every / line. / Am / C The / rich man's toys o' the / Gloucester boys, / C / Am With their / token bit of / cod, / Am / C They / snapped their spars and / strained to pass / C her / by, / F / Am But she / left them all be - / hind, / D Now her namesake / daughter re - mains, / F / Am To / show what she has / been. / C What every / school boy remembers, and F / Am Will not come a - / gain, / Am / C To / think she's the last of the / Grand Bank schooners, / Am / D / / That / fed so many / men. / / Chorus: @2 Am / C / F / / Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun. / / Break: Fiddle / Am / C So does she / not take wing like a / living thing, C / Am Child of the moving / tide, / Am / C See her / pass with grace on the / water's face, / F / Am With / clean and quiet / pride, / Am / C Our / own tall ship of / great renown, / Am / D / / Still / lifts unto the / sky. / / Am / C / F / Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? / Am / C / Am / Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? / Am / C / Am Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? / C / Am Know the / Bluenose in the / sun, @ 3
