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* Stan's tragically early death in a 1983 airliner fire adds to the emotional drama of much of his music when listened to now. The tenor harmony voice on chorus could be the last starving cries of a doomed man echoing off an iceberg. The song is a story of a modern man's reflections on and homage to the early northern explorers while traveling west in a car.
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* Stan's tragically early death in a 1983 airliner fire adds to the emotional drama of much of his music when listened to now. The now.
* "Northwest Passage:" Not a sad song in and of itself (although sober and reflective), but the tenor harmony voice on chorus could be the last starving cries of a doomed man echoing off an iceberg. The song is a story of a modern man's reflections on and homage to the early northern explorers while traveling west in a car.
* "Northwest Passage:" Not a sad song in and of itself (although sober and reflective), but the tenor harmony voice on chorus could be the last starving cries of a doomed man echoing off an iceberg. The song is a story of a modern man's reflections on and homage to the early northern explorers while traveling west in a car.
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* "First Christmas". It's the experiences of a young man working the night shift to make ends meet, an abused teenage girl in a homeless shelter, and an old man whose family have put him in a nursing home, on their first Christmas away from home. The third verse especially can do it.
* There's also "Turnaround", used at the end of the end of the TV movie, ''Terry'' about Canada's great hero, Terry Fox. Just the chorus "Yours is the open road/The bitter song, the heavy load that I'll never share/Though the offer's still there/Every time you turn around" hits you in the heart of what a man Terry was and what we lost when he died so all too soon.
* There's also "Turnaround", used at the end of the end of the TV movie, ''Terry'' about Canada's great hero, Terry Fox. Just the chorus "Yours is the open road/The bitter song, the heavy load that I'll never share/Though the offer's still there/Every time you turn around" hits you in the heart of what a man Terry was and what we lost when he died so all too soon.
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* "First Christmas". It's the experiences of a young man working the night shift to make ends meet, an abused teenage girl in a homeless shelter, and an old man whose family have put him in a nursing home, each on their first Christmas away from home. The third verse especially can do it.
* There's also"Turnaround", "Turnaround," used at the end of the end of the TV movie, movie ''Terry'' about Canada's great hero, Terry Fox. Just the chorus "Yours is the open road/The bitter song, the heavy load that I'll never share/Though the offer's still there/Every time you turn around" hits you in the heart of with what a man Terry was and what we lost when he died so all too soon.
* There's also
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No neighbor stayed his hand, I was alone\\
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No neighbor neighbour stayed his hand, I was alone\\
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Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home"
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Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, mare and take us home"home.
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* "White Squall", about the sudden storms that blow up on the Great Lakes, and the consequences:
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* "White Squall", Squall," about the sudden storms that blow up on the Great Lakes, and the consequences:
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* "Make And Break Harbour" [[note]] named for the make and break engine, a type of early combustion engine used on Atlantic fishing boats[[/note]]is a ballad of the last of the old-fashioned fishermen on the Atlantic seaboard.
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* "Make And Break Harbour" [[note]] named Harbour"[[note]]named for the make and break engine, a type of early combustion engine used on Atlantic fishing boats[[/note]]is boats[[/note]] is a ballad of the last of the old-fashioned fishermen on the Atlantic seaboard.
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When the cod were so cheap and so plenty\\
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When the cod were went so cheap and cheap, but so plenty\\
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Taking all, where we seldom take any\\
And so the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way\\
Long ago, they all moved to the cities\\
And the ones left behind, old, tired, and blind\\
Can't work for "a pound or a penny"."
* Flowers of Bermuda, about the HeroicSacrifice of the ''Nightengale''s captain by going down with the ship after the vessel was holed.
-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale\\
Twenty-one days from Clyde in Coal\\
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda\\
In the gale when he died off the North Rock Shoal''
And so the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way\\
Long ago, they all moved to the cities\\
And the ones left behind, old, tired, and blind\\
Can't work for "a pound or a penny"."
* Flowers of Bermuda, about the HeroicSacrifice of the ''Nightengale''s captain by going down with the ship after the vessel was holed.
-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale\\
Twenty-one days from Clyde in Coal\\
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda\\
In the gale when he died off the North Rock Shoal''
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Taking all, all where we seldom take any\\
Andso the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way\\
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Long ago, they all moved to thecities\\
city\\
And the ones left behind,old, tired, old and blind\\
tired and blind,\\
Can't work for "a poundor for a penny".penny."
*Flowers "Flowers of Bermuda, Bermuda," about the HeroicSacrifice of the ''Nightengale''s ''Nightingale's'' captain by going down with the ship after the vessel was holed.
-->''He was the captain of theNightengale\\
''Nightingale''\\
Twenty-one days from Clyde inCoal\\
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He could smell theFlowers flowers of Bermuda\\
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When he diedoff on the North Rock Shoal''Shoal.''
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Can't work for "a pound
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-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale//
Twenty-one days from Clyde in Coal//
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda//
Twenty-one days from Clyde in Coal//
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda//
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-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale//
Nightengale\\
Twenty-one days from Clyde inCoal//
Coal\\
He could smell the Flowers ofBermuda//Bermuda\\
Twenty-one days from Clyde in
He could smell the Flowers of
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Twenty-one days from Clyde-In-Coal//
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Twenty-one days from Clyde-In-Coal//Clyde in Coal//
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* Flowers of Bermuda, about the HeroicSacrifice of the ''Nightengale''s captain by going down with the ship after the vessel was holed.
-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale//
Twenty-one days from Clyde-In-Coal//
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda//
In the gale when he died off the North Rock Shoal''
-->''He was the captain of the Nightengale//
Twenty-one days from Clyde-In-Coal//
He could smell the Flowers of Bermuda//
In the gale when he died off the North Rock Shoal''
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* Stan's tragically early death in a 1983 airliner fire adds to the emotional drama of much of his music when listened to now. Northwest Passage made me cry uncontrollably for the first four playings. The tenor harmony voice on chorus could be the last starving cries of a doomed man echoing off an iceberg. The song is a story of a modern man's reflections on and homage to the early northern explorers while travelling west in a car.
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* Stan's tragically early death in a 1983 airliner fire adds to the emotional drama of much of his music when listened to now. Northwest Passage made me cry uncontrollably for the first four playings. The tenor harmony voice on chorus could be the last starving cries of a doomed man echoing off an iceberg. The song is a story of a modern man's reflections on and homage to the early northern explorers while travelling traveling west in a car.
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Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home\\
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Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home\\home"
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And her lover's gone into a white squall.\\
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And her lover's gone into a white squall.\\"
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Can't work for "a pound or a penny".\\
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Can't work for "a pound or a penny".\\
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-->Now with the wife as cold as clay I carried her away\\
No hand was raised to help us through the door\\
And I've brought her half a mile, but I've had to rest a while\\
And none of them I'll call a friend no more\\
For when the knife came down, I was helpless on the ground\\
No neighbor stayed his hand, I was alone\\
By God, I was a man, but now I cannot stand\\
Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home\\
No hand was raised to help us through the door\\
And I've brought her half a mile, but I've had to rest a while\\
And none of them I'll call a friend no more\\
For when the knife came down, I was helpless on the ground\\
No neighbor stayed his hand, I was alone\\
By God, I was a man, but now I cannot stand\\
Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home\\
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* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill: "White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "[=MacDonnell=] on the Heights", "Make And Break Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
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* "White Squall", about the sudden storms that blow up on the Great Lakes, and the consequences:
--> And I tell these kids a hundred times, don't take the lakes for granted\\
They'll blow from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted\\
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton [[note]] Wiarton, Ontario provides a disproportionate number of Great Lakes sailors[[/note]] girl lies staring at the wall\\
And her lover's gone into a white squall.\\
* "Make And Break Harbour" [[note]] named for the make and break engine, a type of early combustion engine used on Atlantic fishing boats[[/note]]is a ballad of the last of the old-fashioned fishermen on the Atlantic seaboard.
-->It's so hard not to think of before the big war\\
When the cod were so cheap and so plenty\\
Foreign trawlers go by now with long-seeing eyes\\
Taking all, where we seldom take any\\
And so the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way\\
Long ago, they all moved to the cities\\
And the ones left behind, old, tired, and blind\\
Can't work for "a pound or a penny".\\
* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill:"White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "[=MacDonnell=] on the Heights", "Make And Break "Tiny Fish For Japan", "Free In The Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
--> And I tell these kids a hundred times, don't take the lakes for granted\\
They'll blow from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted\\
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton [[note]] Wiarton, Ontario provides a disproportionate number of Great Lakes sailors[[/note]] girl lies staring at the wall\\
And her lover's gone into a white squall.\\
* "Make And Break Harbour" [[note]] named for the make and break engine, a type of early combustion engine used on Atlantic fishing boats[[/note]]is a ballad of the last of the old-fashioned fishermen on the Atlantic seaboard.
-->It's so hard not to think of before the big war\\
When the cod were so cheap and so plenty\\
Foreign trawlers go by now with long-seeing eyes\\
Taking all, where we seldom take any\\
And so the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way\\
Long ago, they all moved to the cities\\
And the ones left behind, old, tired, and blind\\
Can't work for "a pound or a penny".\\
* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill:
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* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill: "White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "MacDonnell on the Heights", "Make And Break Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
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* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill: "White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "MacDonnell "[=MacDonnell=] on the Heights", "Make And Break Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
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[[Music/StanRogers This Canadian folk musician]] [[TearJerker has some incredibly sad songs]].
* Go listen to "Northwest Passage", then try "Barrett's Privateers".
-->"Goddamn them all, I was told\\
We'd cruise the seas for American gold\\
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears\\
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier\\
The last of Barrett's Privateers."
* "First Christmas". It's the experiences of a young man working the night shift to make ends meet, an abused teenage girl in a homeless shelter, and an old man whose family have put him in a nursing home, on their first Christmas away from home. The third verse especially can do it.
* There's also "Turnaround", used at the end of the end of the TV movie, ''Terry'' about Canada's great hero, Terry Fox. Just the chorus "Yours is the open road/The bitter song, the heavy load that I'll never share/Though the offer's still there/Every time you turn around" hits you in the heart of what a man Terry was and what we lost when he died so all too soon.
* "Harris and the Mare" is awfully goddamn sad.
* "The Last Watch" can make anyone who has made their living on a ship for any period of time break down like a child.
* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill: "White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "MacDonnell on the Heights", "Make And Break Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
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* Go listen to "Northwest Passage", then try "Barrett's Privateers".
-->"Goddamn them all, I was told\\
We'd cruise the seas for American gold\\
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears\\
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier\\
The last of Barrett's Privateers."
* "First Christmas". It's the experiences of a young man working the night shift to make ends meet, an abused teenage girl in a homeless shelter, and an old man whose family have put him in a nursing home, on their first Christmas away from home. The third verse especially can do it.
* There's also "Turnaround", used at the end of the end of the TV movie, ''Terry'' about Canada's great hero, Terry Fox. Just the chorus "Yours is the open road/The bitter song, the heavy load that I'll never share/Though the offer's still there/Every time you turn around" hits you in the heart of what a man Terry was and what we lost when he died so all too soon.
* "Harris and the Mare" is awfully goddamn sad.
* "The Last Watch" can make anyone who has made their living on a ship for any period of time break down like a child.
* Many other Rogers songs fit the bill: "White Squall", "Lock-Keeper", "MacDonnell on the Heights", "Make And Break Harbour"... the list goes on. And on.
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