Stan's Tune-Bruce Guthro

[ti:Stan's Tune] [ar:Bruce Guthro] [al:Celtic Crossing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stan's Tune - Bruce Guthro [00:15.73]The sea is a little darker [00:18.11] [00:19.38]In make and break harbour [00:21.53] [00:22.75]The wind blows cold [00:24.44] [00:25.93]And fewer sails to fill [00:28.55] [00:30.22]No longer does the train go by a nova scotian home [00:36.17] [00:37.64]An' foreign ships still rape [00:39.12]Our coasts while [00:40.46] [00:41.16]Fishing boats lie still [00:43.88] [00:45.66]We sift through broken promises [00:48.50] [00:49.08]And unemployment lines [00:51.60] [00:52.79]See our children move away [00:55.67]And call from time to time [00:58.25] [00:59.49]The songs that you have left [01:01.16]For us [01:02.27]They grow truer by the day [01:04.64] [01:05.92]It's almost like you never went away [01:09.87] [01:11.72]But I feel the storm building [01:14.52] [01:15.70]Blowing across the plains [01:18.25] [01:19.60]Driven hard by and eastward wind [01:21.88]Like it's coming home again [01:25.03] [01:25.88]Carrying a giant [01:27.63] [01:28.59]I hear you laughing now [01:31.49] [01:32.08]As you pound your fist for the rain [01:34.45]To fall on the fields behind the plow [01:37.77] [01:38.71]And the waves crash up against privateers wharf [01:42.24]And the hand of franklin' charts the course [01:45.27]With the crash of thunder [01:47.07]Through the cold hard rain [01:48.73] [01:49.43]We'll see the giant rise again [01:56.21] [02:05.22]And your music still fills our veins [02:08.83]Puts fire in our blood [02:10.36] [02:12.17]It's stood the test of time and change [02:15.78]And helped us rise above [02:18.13] [02:18.96]And the songs you have left for us [02:22.34]Grow truer by the day [02:24.68] [02:26.00]It's almost like you never went away [02:29.48] [02:35.53]So how often have you wandered [02:37.95] [02:38.65]From that land of distant thunder [02:41.28] [02:42.26]To help to guide a heart and hand [02:45.05] [02:45.68]To help to craft a song [02:47.82] [02:48.61]Or danced upon a fiddler's knee [02:52.15]Or on a bow in open sea [02:54.94] [02:55.67]And felt the north wind on your face [02:58.58]And called to bring her on [03:02.23]Tonight the evening sun will set [03:05.35]Down in the western sky [03:07.52] [03:08.70]And we'll lock our doors in from the storm [03:11.93]Where souls and spirits fly [03:15.23] [03:15.77]And somewhere in the darkness [03:17.66] [03:18.46]A candle lights the way [03:21.21] [03:22.81]Almost like you never went away [03:26.48] [03:29.33]Almost like you never went away [03:33.27] [03:35.71]Almost like you never went away