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Thread #136757   Message #3792221
Posted By: GUEST,GHW
26-May-16 - 12:01 AM
Thread Name: Review: One Warm Line - Stan Rogers Video
Subject: RE: Review: One Warm Line - Stan Rogers Video
Brian--

I feel your pain! I've been searching for any info on this song for a while now myself. About the best I've got right now is a rough transcription of the lyrics as sung in "One Warm Line." Song begins about at about the 23:16 mark, and goes on to roughly 23:55.

When I first came to this land
Oh land all I would plunder
To take at the stretching of the hand
The beaver filled the streams
And I dreamed a dream [unintelligible] and had the chance
To sell the furs to ladies back in France

When I first came to this land
Oh this [unintelligible] [and/ virgin?] wonder
Teeming o'er with beast and fish and fowl

Now for some speculation. I think that this may have been originally recorded for some CBC project or another, along similar lines to "Take it From Day to Day" or "Billy Green." That might explain why it hasn't been re-released yet. I'm also thinking it may have been from earlier in Rogers' career rather than later, but I'm not sure I'd want to put a date on it just yet.

Good luck!