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The Cliffs of Baccalieu
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We were bound home in October from the shores of Laborador
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Trying to head a bad Nor'easter and snow, too
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But the wind swept down upon us making day as black as night
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Just before we made the land of Baccalieu.
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Oh we tried to clear the Island as we brought her farther South
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And the wind from out the Nor'east stonger blew
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Till our lookout soon he shouted and there lay dead ahead
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Through the snow squalls loomed the cliffs of Baccalieu.
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It was hard down by the tiller as we struggled with the sheets
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Tried our best to haul them in a foot or two
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Till our decks so sharply tilted that we could barely keep our feet
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As we hauled her from the rocks of Baccalieu.
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Oh the combers beat her under and we thought she ne'er would rise
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And her mainboom was bending neigh in two
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With our lee rails three feet under and two hands at the wheel
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Sure, we hauled her from the rocks of Baccalieu
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Oh to leeward was the island and to win'ard was the gale
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And the blinding sleet would cut you through and through
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But our hearts were beating gladly for no longer could we gaze
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Down to leeward at the cliffs of Baccalieu.
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