4.14 Canadian History Through Poetry and Lyrics - Part Two

First Read

Read the poem. Try to get the gist of the poem. Like the Canadian Railroad Trilogy, it is a narrative poem. It tells a story.

Bluenose (from the Irish Rovers album "Tall Ships and Salty Dogs", 1978)

In the town of Lunenburg down Nova Scotia way

In nineteen twenty-one on a windy day

A sailing ship was born, "Bluenose" was her name

You'll never see her kind again 

 

{CHORUS} Bluenose, the ocean knows her name

Sailors know how proud a ship was she

Bluenose, leaning in the wind

Racing ev'ry way on the sea 

 

Her hull was long and black, her sails were snowy white

She looked just like a young bird in flight

And from the very first, the Bluenose loved to run

She loved the smell of sea and sun 

 

{CHORUS} Bluenose, the ocean knows her name

Sailors know how proud a ship was she

Bluenose, leaning in the wind

Racing ev'ry way on the sea 

 

For twenty-five long years she ruled the Northern sea

Riding like a queen on the tide

In the Caribbean one dark and stormy day

She ran upon a reef and died 

 

{CHORUS} Bluenose, the ocean knows her name

Sailors know how proud a ship was she

Bluenose, leaning in the wind

Racing ev'ry way on the sea 

 

Now just the other day, down Nova Scotia way

In Lunenburg they christened a ship

Just like the old Bluenose, down to the very name

The Bluenose lives and sails again 

 

{CHORUS} Bluenose, the ocean knows her name

Sailors know how proud a ship was she

Bluenose, leaning in the wind

Racing ev'ry way on the sea