Key: A minor
Verse 1
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With new life pushing through
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C
That I looked from the citadel down to the
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narrows and asked what it's coming to
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I saw Upper- Canadian
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concrete and glass
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D
Right down to the water line
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I have heard an old song down
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Can I sing it just one time
Verse 2
Am
Am
F
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For the warm wind giving thanks
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C
I dreamed of the years of the deep laden schooners
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G
splashing home from the Grand Banks
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The last lies done in the harbor sun
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F
D
With her picture on a dime
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But I heard an old song down
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Am
Can I sing it just one time
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Can I sing it just one time
Verse 3
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E
C
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This song is heard no more
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No boats to sing it for
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No sailors to sing it for
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D
G
There rises now a single tide of
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tourists passing through
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We traded old ways for the new
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Old ways for the new
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Old ways for the new,
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for the new
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Verse 4
Now you ask "What's
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Who laments what's
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done and gone?"
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C
There was no romance on a cold winter
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ocean and the gale sang an awful song
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But my fathers knew of wind and tide,
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and my blood is maritime
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Can I sing it just one time
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CHORUS
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Verse 5
D
Em
(Re
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peat first verse)
Outro 1
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C
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D
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