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Thread #9501 Message #3411984
Posted By: ollaimh
29-Sep-12 - 11:14 PM
Thread Name: Songs of emigration
Subject: Lyr Add: GOING DOWN THE ROAD (Bruce Cockburn)
don't forget canadian internal immigration. and let me tell you, in ontario nova scotians and new foundlanders are treated like any foreign immigrant. so i nominte bruce cockburn's }going down the road"
in the isle of cape breton my father did toil and his fathers father before fishoing the bankd and digging the coal in the mines that don't give no more ore
so i'm going down the road boys seeking what i'm owed and i know it must get better the farther down i go
i remember the fishing boats nets full of silver when fishing was always the best but they could not compete with the fireigners fleet so its welfare relief or go west
so i'm going...
we came to the city with the sun in our eyes our nouthe full of laughter and trust but asll that we found there was concrete and dust and hard times sold in vending machines