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14 Jul 03 - 01:17 AM (#982723) Subject: Lyrics req: Rogers' Man & Blue Dolphin From: GUEST,Len Wallace Hello fellow travellers, Been listening again and again to Stan Rogers' song "Man and Blue Dolphin". I've got most of the lyrics, but cannot get the second verse about "Blue Dolphin built . . . " Can anyone help out? It's one of Stan's songs people tend to overlook, but the message is powerful. Thanks a bunch. for music that never dies, Len Wallace |
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14 Jul 03 - 01:31 AM (#982726) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rogers' Man & Blue Dolphin From: Clinton Hammond Blue Dolphin build by the Rhuland men She's lying on the bottom again With only him to care The Bluenose had a sister He lost the house and he sold the car His wife walked out and he hit the bar And hit up every friend To raise the Blue Dolphin... Ya know Len, ya coulda just called me... :-) |
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31 Jul 03 - 09:28 PM (#994685) Subject: Lyr Add: MAN WITH BLUE DOLPHIN (Stan Rogers) From: Jim Dixon Why not post the whole thing? Copied from http://stevebriggs.superb.net/stanrogers/songs/mwbd-sng.html MAN WITH BLUE DOLPHIN (Stan Rogers) It was just like him. He had to pick A boat gone from dowdy to derelict In half a dozen years Of searching for an owner. She may have lost her heart in the harbour mud, But she really caught his at the flood; And he wonders how she knew That she was waiting for a loner. Blue Dolphin, built by the Rhuland men, She's lying on the bottom again With only him to care That Bluenose had a sister. He lost the house and he sold the car. His wife walked out, so he hit the bars And hit up every friend To raise the Blue Dolphin. And even afloat she's a hole in the water where his money goes. Every dollar goes, And it's driving him crazy. He pounds his fists white on the dock in the night And cries, "I'm gonna win!" And licks the blood away. And he's gonna raise the Dolphin. Blue Dolphin's lying like a wounded whale. She's hungry for a scrap of a sail To get her underway Back to salt water. Now there's a man lying spent in the winter sun. He wonders what the hell he has done And who would ever pay To save his schooner daughter. For even afloat she's a hole in the water where his money goes. Every dollar goes And it's driving him crazy. He pounds his fists white on the dock in the night And cries, "I'm gonna win!" And licks the blood away. And he's gonna raise the Dolphin. [Recorded by Stan Rogers on "From Fresh Water," 1984.] |
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31 Jul 03 - 09:30 PM (#994686) Subject: Lyr Add: Rogers' Man & Blue Dolphin From: Sorcha For Jim Dixon's post of 31 Jul 03 - 09:28 PM this thread. (Tune, anyone?) |
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15 Aug 22 - 04:55 PM (#4150344) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with Blue Dolphin (Stan Rogers) From: Joe Offer What happened to the Blue Dolphin? Was it restored? |
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15 Aug 22 - 05:10 PM (#4150345) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with Blue Dolphin (Stan Rogers) From: Reinhard Sunk in Detroit, see Wikipedia. |
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15 Aug 22 - 05:25 PM (#4150349) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with Blue Dolphin (Stan Rogers) From: Joe Offer Thanks for that, Reinhard. I'm a Detroiter, and didn't know that story. There's one terrific photo of the Blue Dolphin in the Wikipedia article. It looks very much like the Bluenose, but the article says it's considerably smaller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dolphin |
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22 Aug 22 - 12:30 PM (#4150727) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Man with Blue Dolphin (Stan Rogers) From: maeve Youtube recording with Stan Rogers singing his "Man with Blue Dolphin" song- responding to now-gone Sorcha's request. Man with Blue Dolphin" recording, youtube |