Lyr Req:Send the Boats Away (NZ Nuke Protest Song)

Subject: Send the boats away Words?
From:
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 10:06 AM

Anyonr help with the words to this NZ nuclear protest song

Send the boats away my friends, send the boats away We care not how you run them out send the boats away

Regards Ted

Subject: RE: Sw
From: rich-joy
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:36 AM

refresh (5 years is a long wait)

yeah, I'd like 'em too!

moving version done in Brisbane by Lonnie Martin and Helen Rowe ...

Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: Sw
From: rich-joy
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:38 AM

damn! how d'ya change thread titles???!!!

R-J

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You ask Joe or Jeff - did I change it OK, Rich?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: ADD: Send the boats away (NZ Nuke Protest Song)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:46 AM

Hey, I found it here (click).
-Joe Offer-

SEND THE BOATS AWAY
(Lynn Clark)
Tuning: DADGAD

  
  D                A             G                    D
  Once, in seas of silver, fishermen would cast their nets
                     A                 G               A
  To take the bounty of the Sea: those men are fishing yet,
      D                   A               G               D
  But now their boats are laden down with goods of lethal store,
                           A                    G         A      D
  And in these peace-times we should fear those sea-bound men-of-war.
  
  
  Chorus:
  (so) Send the boats away, my friends, (now) send the boats away.
  We care not how we run them out, but send the boats away,
  For if we choose to live in peace then who are they to say?
  Let's take a stand, protect this land, and send the boats away.
  
  
  Who will want those nuclear holes when those nets are raised?
                     to our oceans whose seas are filled with waste,
  And fishing-boats of fisher-folk lie useless on the shore,
  For bearing down upon them now are those sea-bound men-of-war.
  
  Chorus
  
  Once I slept easy in my bed, mind free from Holocaust,
  But now it seems like nuclear-free Pacific zones we've lost,
  For now the boats are laden down with goods of lethal store,
  And in these peace-times we should fear those sea-bound men-of-war.
  
  Chorus
  
  A          D
  Send them away
  
  Send them away
  
  Send them away.

Subject: RE: Sw - Send the boats away (NZ Nuke Protest Song)
From: rich-joy
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:12 AM

THANKS Joe!!! and so quick!

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Sw - Send the boats away (NZ Nuke Protest Song)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:54 AM

I hadn't remembered the words of the song but I do remember Lonnie & Helen's voices singing the line "send the boats away" - 2 beautiful voices.

Subject: RE: Sw - Send the boats away (NZ Nuke Protest Song)
From:
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:32 PM

Was listening to Mike Harding's offering of this just yesterday, it's a good'n. Off course I'm biased about his version.

Small correction to third line, first verse:
But now the boats are laden down...

also, the missing part of the second line, second verse is:
And death comes to our ocean....

Jack