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Thread #46598   Message #1224135
Posted By: GUEST
12-Jul-04 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One More Pull
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MORE PULL (Ian Woods / Ken Stephens)
Dear Doxie here is the Ken Stevens version which I recorded when I was with Landlocked and will be (has already been recorded) on my new CD to be released early next year.

Graeme

ONE MORE PULL
Ian Woods / Ken Stephens

Giant comers, ocean rollers,
Living waves upon the sea.
But for us, boys, there's no future.
It's not like it used to be.

CHORUS: One more pull, boys. That'll do, boys.
Soon we'll draw alongside.
Hoist her upwards. Swing her inboard,
For the journey's nearly o'er.

Iceland's dangers, Greenland's fog banks,
Northern storm's intensity,
It's all gone now. Turn her homeward,
For the market won't reach the fee. CHORUS

No more codfish off Newfoundland
Dancing silver down the hatch.
Drifters, trawlers and purse seiners
All laid up or sold for scrap. CHORUS

So heave the line, boys, one last time, now.
Then we'll have the final trawl.
No need to wonder where it's all gone to.
Only time to heave 'n' haul. CHORUS