Stan Rogers – Bluenose (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Words & Music: Stan Rogers Song: Bluenose Tabbed By: Charlie H. Intro: Am
     Am                       G
Once again with the tide, she slips her lines,

          F
Turns her head and comes awake,

          Am                    G
Where she lay so still there at Privateers Wharf,

        F
Now she quickly gathers way,

         C                      Em
She will range far south of the harbour mouth, and

  Am               D
Rejoice with every wave,

Am                C               Am
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.

         Am               G
Feel her bow rise free of Mother sea,

     F
In a sunburst cloud of spray,

     Am                          G
That stings the cheek, while the rigging will speak

   F
Of sea miles gone away,

       C                 Em
She is always best under full press,

     Am             D
Hard over as she'll lay.

Am                C               F
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.

Am                C               F
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.

    Am                      C
The proud past queen of the Grand Banks fleet,

   Em              Am
Portrayed on every dime,

     Em               Am
Knew hard work in her time,

     Em            N/C
Hard work in every line.

    Am                     C
The rich man's toys of the Gloucester boys,

           Em           Am
With their token bit of cod,

     Am                      D                    G
They snapped their spars and strained to pass her by,

        Em
But she left them all behind,

Am               G
Now her namesake daughter remains,

   F
To show what she has been.

Am         G
What every school boy remembers, and

F
Will not come again,

C                              Em
To think she's the last of the Grand Bank schooners,

     Am          D
That fed so many men.

Am                C               F
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.

Am                C               F
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.
Break: Fiddle Am C F Am C D Am C F Am C D
            Am                   G
So does she not take wing like a living thing,

      F
Child of the moving tide,

        Am                     G
See her pass with grace on the water's face,

     F
With clean and quiet pride,

    C                Em
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               F
Who will know the Bluenose in the sun.

                         Am
Know the Bluenose in the sun

Am       Em              Am
Know the Bluenose in the sun