The Bluenose Chords by Stan Rogers

Bluenose     4/4     Stan Rogers
Standard Tuning  No Capo			Submitted by Ken Lee
Intro:						kandvlee@shaw.ca
         / Am                      / C
Once a - / gain with the tide, she / slips her lines,
          / C                  / Am
Turns her / head and comes a - / wake,
          / Am                    / C
Where she / lay so still there at / Privateers Wharf,
        / F               / Am
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. / /

         / Am               / C
Feel her / bow rise free of / Mother sea,
     / C                 / Am
In a / sunburst cloud of / spray,
     / Am                          / C
That / stings the cheek, while the / rigging will speak
   / F                  / Am
Of / sea miles gone a - / way,
       / Am                / C
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, / /

    / Am                      / C
The / proud past queen of the / Grand Banks fleet,
       / C              / Am
Port - / rayed on every / dime,
     / Am               / D
Knew / hard work in her / time,
     / F             / Am
Hard / work in every / line.

    / Am                     / C
The / rich man's toys o' the / Gloucester boys,
           / C            / Am
With their / token bit of / cod,
     / Am                      / C
They / snapped their spars and / strained to pass
    / C
her / by,
        / F                  / Am
But she / left them all be - / hind,
                 / D
Now her namesake / daughter re - mains,
   / F                 / Am
To / show what she has / been.
           / C
What every / school boy remembers, and
F                 / Am
Will not come a - / gain,
   / Am                          / C
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
            / Am                   / C
So does she / not take wing like a / living thing,
C                   / Am
Child of the moving / tide,
        / Am                     / C
See her / pass with grace on the / water's face,
     / F               / Am
With / clean and quiet / pride,
    / Am               / C
Our / own tall ship of / great renown,
      / Am             / D    / /
Still / lifts unto the / sky. / /
Am                / C               / F    /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
Am                / C               / Am   /
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun? /
Am                / C               / Am
Who will know the / Bluenose in the / sun?
         / C               / Am
Know the / Bluenose in the / sun, @ 3