Standard Tuning  No Capo            
Intro:                                    kandvlee@shaw.ca
         / A5                      / C5
Once a - / gain with the tide, she / slips her lines,
          / C5                  / A5
Turns her / head and comes a - / wake,
          / A5                    / C5
Where she / lay so still there at / Privateers Wharf,
        / F5               / A5
Now she / quickly gathers / way,
         / Am        /              / C
She will / range far / south of the / harbour mouth, and
     / C                / D     / /
Re - / joice with every / wave, / /
Am                / C               / F    / /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun. / /

         / A5               / C5
Feel her / bow rise free of / Mother sea,
     / C5                 / A5
In a / sunburst cloud of / spray,
     / A5                          / C5
That / stings the cheek, while the / rigging will speak
   / F5                  / A5
Of / sea miles gone a - / way,
       / A5                / C5
She is / always best under / full press,
     / C              / D    / /
Hard / over as she'll / lay. / /

Chorus: @2
Am                / C               / Am   / /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun, / /

    / A5                      / C5
The / proud past queen of the / Grand Banks fleet,
       / C5              / A5
Port - / rayed on every / dime,
     / A5               / D5
Knew / hard work in her / time,
     / F5             / A5
Hard / work in every / line.

    / A5                     / C5
The / rich man's toys o' the / Gloucester boys,
           / C5            / A5
With their / token bit of / cod,
     / A5                      / C5
They / snapped their spars and / strained to pass
    / C5
her / by,
        / F5                  / A5
But she / left them all be - / hind,
                 / D5
Now her namesake / daughter re - mains,
   / F5                 / A5
To / show what she has / been.
           / C5
What every / school boy remembers, and
F5                 / A5
Will not come a - / gain,
   / A5                          / C5
To / think she's the last of the / Grand Bank schooners,
     / Am          / D    / /
That / fed so many / men. / /

Chorus: @2
Am                / C               / F    / /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun. / /

Break:      Fiddle
            / A5                   / C5
So does she / not take wing like a / living thing,
C5                   / A5
Child of the moving / tide,
        / A5                     / C5
See her / pass with grace on the / water's face,
     / F5               / A5
With / clean and quiet / pride,
    / A5               / C5
Our / own tall ship of / great renown,
      / Am             / D    / /
Still / lifts unto the / sky. / /
A5                / C5               / F5    /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
A5                / C5               / A5   /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
A5                / C5               / A5
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun?
         / C5               / A5
Know the / Bluenose in the / sun, @ 3