Where the earth shows its bones of wind-broken stone And the sea and the sky are one I'm caught out of time, my blood sings with wine And I'm running naked in t...

BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS by Stan Rogers Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW! A letter of marque come from the king, To the scummiest vessel I'...

CAPE STMARY'S Take me back to my western boat Let me fish off Cape St Mary's Where the hog-down sail And the Fog horns wail With my friends the Browns and the C...

Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight, dark rows Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dust cake from your nose Hear the tractor's steady roar, ...

It was in the spring this year of grace, with new life pushing through, That I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it's coming to I saw U...

Hockey invades every household in Canada on some level It is our National Sport Real afficionados play all year long This is probably why first time Visitors...

We just lost sight of the Queensport light down the bay before us And the wind has blown some cold today with just a wee touch of snow Along the shore from Lazy...

Well it's blackfish at play in Hermitage Bay From Pushthrough across to Bois Island They broach and they sprout and they lift their flukes out And they wave to ...

GARNETT'S HOMEMADE BEER 1 Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight, (How I wish I'd never tried it now,) When a score of men were turned quite green By the scummi...

[This piece is for all of you who've sat in the bars and watched it all happen - another one of the reasons Stan didn't like performing in very many bars] That ...

Harris and the Mare By: Stan Rodgers Harris, my old friend, good to see your face again More welcome, though, yon trap and that old mare For the wife is in a sw...

Lady Margaret Sweet William rose one morning bright And dressed himself in blue "Come tell to me the long lost love Between Lady Margaret and you" "I know no ha...

At last the kids are gone now for the day She reaches for the coffee as the school bus pulls away Another day to tend the hous and plan For Friday at the Legion...

[There is an extensive system of locks along the St Lawrence Seaway The locks have a marvellous history It's a pity they couldn't speak half the tales they've...

Another unsung hero of Canadian history The texts give a terribly sparse Accounting of this man He was a Major under Brock, and apparently not a very Popula...

There is a young maiden who lives all alone She lives all alone on the shore-o There's nothing she can find to comfort her mind But to roam all alone on the sho...

How still lies the bay, in the light western airs Which blow from the crimson horizon Once more we tack home, with a dry empty hold Saving gas with the breezes ...

Research sometimes turns up more than just a lot of information Bruce Kemp, A freelance photographer, supplied Stan with a true life story There really is A w...

Forty-four's no age to start again, But the bulls were getting tough and he was never free of pain Where others blew their winnings getting tanked, Most of his ...

Northwest Passage (Stan Rogers) cho: Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea; Tracin...

ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI sung (but not written) by Stan Rogers It's a damn tough life, full of toil and strife, we whalermen undergo, And we won't give a damn w...

SCARBOROUGH SETTLER'S LAMENT Away wi' Canada's muddy creeks And Canada's fields of pine Your land of wheat is a goodly land, But oh, it is not mine The heathy h...

[Stan introduced this song on stage, "I don't care what your politics are, when our children are dying in the streets, it's time to put away the guns" He said ...

I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground Far out beyond the tank farm fe...

She went down last October in a pouring driving rain The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dea...

[There were countless skirmishes on the Great Lakes between ships and boats of all makes and sizes during the War of 1812-14 "Well", Stan said, "we won the da...

[Originally called 'The Midland' after a lake steamer called 'The City of Midland', this song is the true accounting of the final disposal of one of the worker...

WHITE COLLAR HOLLER Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight Some woman who's my wife tells me not to be late I kiss the kids goodbye, I can't rememb...

Pale was the wounded night That bore the rowan shield Loud and cruel were the raven's cries As he feasted on the field Saying beck water cold and clear Will ne...

We were drinking down to Reedy's house When first we heard the blow It seemed to come from Ripper Rock So boldly forth to go And sure enough the rusty tub Coul...

This song is not intended as a slur of any kind on the countries who import Food products that our government won't let us eat It is Stan's sadly ironic Way of...

[The town of Wiarton is situated at the mouth of one of the deepest Great Lake ports For years, over 30% of the Captains and First Mates employed in shipping o...

I used to love these lazy winter afternoons; Starting out too late giving up too soon; Coming home to coffee and a trashy book; Never paying any mind if things ...

YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND Ye Parliament of England, You Lords and commons, too, Consider well what you're about And what you're going to do You're now to fight w...