Here is a contribution as thanks for all the wonderful songs I'm finding in DT. The Bluenose was the fastest working fishing schooner of her day. She met an ignominious end when was stripped of her masts and converted to motorized freighter before being shipwrecked off the coast of Haiti in the 1930's. During the 1960's, the Oland Brewing Company of Halifax, brewers of Oland Schooner Lager Beer, commissioned a full-scale replica, Bluenose II, to be built in the original shipyard (Smith and Rhuland of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) and used this tune in their beer commercials (I hope that does not disqualify it as a folksong). The Bluenose II will never race in deference to the Bluenose. Stan Rogers referred to the Bluenose II in Fisherman's Wharf "The last lies done in the harbour sun with her picture on a dime". You can go to Halifax today, tour the bluenose II and even sail on her on daily harbour tours.

The only recording of this song that I know about is a compilation tape ("Sounds of Nova Scotia" I think) that was available at the Halifax airport at one time.

THE BLUENOSE
(Michael Stanbury)

Now, I've got a story to tell
Of a ship that served her people well.
Well The Bluenose was her name
And she never lost a race.
She won herself a place
In the history of Canada.
Blow, winds, blow, for The Bluenose is sailing once again.

CHORUS: Beat to the windward once more,
And up, sheath the fors'l as before,
For your country will be proud once again
Of the ship and the men,
Who sail her smartly into victory,
Blow, winds, blow,
For the Bluenose is sailing once again.

Built in a Nova Scotia town
Where the shipwrights had earned the world's renown.
Down in Lunenburg they built
A living legend out of skill sweat and pride.
And the sailed her masterfully
'Til she died.
Blow, winds, blow, for The Bluenose is sailing once again.

Chorus (2x), (second time: last line 3x)