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