True story: Sometime during the late 80's I picked up a hitchhiker on Highway 7 in eastern Ontario, just outside Sharbot Lake. I was just going home, so I had twenty miles of company with this fellow named Richard. His story was that he was a sailor from Nova Scotia, I think from Digby, and he had missed his ship in Vancouver, so he had to hitchhike all the way across the country to meet up with it again.

He also told me,and this is why I link it to this song, was that he had lost 3 or 4 brothers at sea, but his mother knew that he was going to keep on going out, didn't even try to stop him. Stubborn bunch those Nova Scotians. He was broke so I bought him a Burger King special when I dropped him off.

I had no way of checking out his story, but it rang true, because I'd heard about a scallop boat from his area that had gone down a year or two earlier with the loss of several crew members.

W-O