D5
All hands are awake tonight 
    G5
the weather it is rough
    A5
the skipper smiles and all hands note 
     G5            D5
he's not a man to bluff

the wheel he grapsed, the waves they crashed
    G5
the night is not so clear
          A5
but he'll push he hard with no regard
   G5                 D5
to make it home this year

D5
A giant of a man he stands
     G5
our skipper brave and strong
       A5
but he promised us two weeks ago
     G5                 D5
that we would make St. John's

to celebrate the christ child's birth
         G5
with the families oh so dear
    A5
to visit out communities
   G5                    D5
to spread our christmas cheer

G5                   A5               D5
I'll try to make it home again this year
   G5          A5
by land or by sea
  D5                G5
I think of you and me
                      A5          D5
If I could I'd take a plane that soars across the sky
    G5                 A5
For Christmas time in Newfoundland
    G5               D5
and my own piece of mind

But the sea is unforgiving
it drove us up and down
but lucky we did have a ship
that was so very sound
we rode our way past baccalieu
and down by logey bay
the people that we missed so much
were not too far away

We pushed along the coastline
till a break came in the rock
the roughest trip we ever made
was one mile from the dock
boys I've kept my promise
the skipper he did say
we passed by fort amherst light
on that cold Christmas Day

I'll try to make it home again this year
by land or by sea 
I think of you and me
If I could I'd take a plane that soars across the sky
For Christmas time in Newfoundland 
and my own piece of mind

So people that you know who work
on the land or on the sea
remember that if possible 
it's home that they will be
to celebrate this blessid time
with family oh so dear
to say they made it home again
for christmas time this year

I'll try to make it home again this year
by land or by sea 
I think of you and me
If I could I'd take a plane that soars across the sky
For Christmas time in Newfoundland 
and my own piece of mind

I'll try to make it home again this year
by land or by sea 
I think of you and me
If I could I'd take a plane that soars across the sky
For Christmas time in Newfoundland 
and my own piece of mind

For Christmas time in Newfoundland 
and my own piece of mind