Stan Rogers – Free In The Harbour (Ukulele)

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Well, it's / Blackfish at play in / Hermitage Bay,

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From / push through across to Bois / Island.    (pronounced BWAS)

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They / broach and they spout, and

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They / lift their flukes out, and

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They / wave to a town that is / dyin'.

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Now it's / many's the boats, that has / plied on the foam,

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Hauling a - way, / Hauling a - way!

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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 Al - / berta.

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With / lop-side grins, they / waggle their chins, and

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They / brag of the wage they'll be / earnin'.

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Then it's / quick, pull the string boys, and

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Get the / tool out,

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Haul it a - way, / Haul it a - way!

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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; the / Blackfish are sporting a - / gain,

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Free in the / Harbour; un - / troubled 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 a - way, / Hauling a - way!

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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, and

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If there's / doubts, it's best they ig - / nore them.

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Nor / think on the bones, the / crosses and stones,

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Of their / fathers that came there be - / fore them.

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In the / taverns of Edmonton, / fishermen shout,

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Haul it a - way, / Haul it a - way!

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They left / three hundred years buried / up by the Bay,

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Where the / whales make free in the / harbour.

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Free in the / harbour...a - / gain.