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Make And Break Harbour
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Stan Rogers
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How still lies the bay, in the light western airs
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Which blow from the crimson horizon
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Once more we tack home, with a dry empty hole
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Saving gas with the breezes so fair
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She's a kindly cape islander, old but still sound
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But so lost in the long liners shadow
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Make and Break and make do, but the fish are so few
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That she won't be replaced should she founder
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Now it's so hard to not think of before the big war
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When the cod went so cheap, but so plenty
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Foreign trawlers go by now with long seeing eyes
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Taking all where we seldom take any
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And the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's ways
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Long ago they all moved to the cities
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And the ones left behind old and tired and blind
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Won't work for a pound, for a penny.
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In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few
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Too many are holed up and rotten.
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Most houses stand empty old nets hung to dry
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Are blown away lost and forgotten
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Now I can see the big draggers that stirred up the bay
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Leaving lobster traps smashed on the bottom
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And they think it don't pay to respect the old ways
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That make and break men have not forgotten
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For we still keep our time to the turn of the tide
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In this boat that I built with my father
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Still lifts to the sky, "One Lunger" and I
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Still talk like old friends on the water
Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour
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