• Song:

    Free In The Harbour

  • Artist:

    Stan Rogers

  • Album:

    Northwest Passage (Rema...

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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.

Chorus:

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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.

Break:

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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.

Chorus:

G5                 / C5                  / G5
Free in the / harbour...a - / gain.
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