#486: YouTube video by oldirishladdie ℗2009 ~ Used with permission ~ |
In the mid-1960s,
the news rang out clear,
Pack your bags and your nets,
you must get out of here;
Take your picks and your shovels,
your rakes and your hoes,
The government says
you must pack up and go.
Well, the news it soon spread
to the harbours and coves,
That the young crowd were
leaving in hoards and in droves;
For to go to Toronto
to follow their goals,
Or to go to Placentia
to live on the dole.
And it's out from St Leonard's
and out from Toslow,
They'd steam 'cross the bay
with their houses in tow;
With their beds in the bow
and their stoves in the stern,
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
Now, Skipper Jim Pittman
he said he wouldn't go,
While there's nets to be mended
and hay to be mowed;
He said he'd never work,
no matter the pay,
In some hockey stick factory
out Stephenville way.
And it's out from St Leonard's
and out from Toslow,
They'd steam 'cross the bay
with their houses in tow;
With their beds in the bow
and their stoves in the stern,
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
Now, on all politicians
they cursed and they swore,
They rather would fight
off in some distant war;
For when they ceased to ramble
and they ceased to roam,
They'd like to return to
a place they called home.
And it's out from St Leonard's
and out from Toslow,
They'd steam 'cross the bay
with their houses in tow;
With their beds in the bow
and their stoves in the stern,
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
Now the islands and harbours
and coves are ghost towns,
You need a longliner
to harvest the ground;
And a big oil refinery
now stands as a shrine,
To the daughters and sons
who remember the time.
And it's out from St Leonard's
and out from Toslow,
They'd steam 'cross the bay
with their houses in tow;
With their beds in the bow
and their stoves in the stern,
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
They sailed out from St Leonard's
and out from Toslow,
They'd steam 'cross the bay
with their houses in tow;
With their beds in the bow
and their stoves in the stern,
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
Bound away with their
sons and their daughters.
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The video above features a recording by The Ennis Sisters (Red Is The Rose, 1997 CD, trk#5).See more Irish Descendants songs.
#321: YouTube video by NLTreasure ℗2013 ~ Used with permission ~ |
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[C] In the mid 1960s
the [F] news rang out [C] clear,
Pack your bags and your nets,
you must [F] get out of [G] here;
Take your [C] picks and your shovels,
your [F] rakes and your [C] hoes,
The government says you must
[F] pack up and [G] go.
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