Stan Rogers – Free In The Harbour (Guitar)

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Well it's blackfish at play in Hermitage Bay

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From Pushthrough across to Bois Island

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They broach and they sprout and they lift their flukes out

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And they wave to a town that is dying

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Now it's many's the boats that have plied on the foam

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Hauling away, hauling away!

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But there's many more fellows been leaving their homes

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Where the whales make free in the harbour

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It's at Portage and Main, you'll see them again

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On their way to the hills of Alberta

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With lop-sided grins, they waggle their chins

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And they brag of the wage they'll be earning

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Then it's, "Quick, pull the string boys, and get the tool out

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Haul it away! Haul it away!"

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But just two years ago, you could hear the same shout

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Where the whales make free in the harbour

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Free in the harbour

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The blackfish are sporting again

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Free in the harbour

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Untroubled by comings and goings of men

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Who once did pursue them as oil from the sea

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Hauling away, hauling away!

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Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay

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Where the whales make free in the harbour

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Well, it's a living they've found, deep in the ground

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And if there's doubts, it's best they ignore them

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Nor think on the bones, the crosses and stones

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Of their fathers that came there before them

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In the taverns of Edmonton, fishermen shout

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"Haul it away! Haul it away!"

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They left three hundred years buried up on the Bay

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Where the whales make free in the harbour

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Free in the harbour

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The blackfish are sporting again

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Free in the harbour

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Untroubled by comings and goings of men

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Who once did pursue them as oil from the sea

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Hauling away, hauling away!

             G                       Am 
Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay

            D                      G 
Where the whales make free in the harbour

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Free in the harbour... again