Stan Rogers - Free in the Harbour

[@ronmclaughlin886]

Who would thumbs down a Stan Rogers classic?

[@1775Dreamer]

Smiling bastards who are lying to you everywhere you go, that's who... ;-)

[@donaldwood3261]

@@1775Dreamer Best reply of all time well done 1775Dreamer!!!

[@caribouwho]

First time I've heard this one. As a Newfoundlander in Alberta it really pulls the hearts strings. Thank you Stan. the ties that bind...

[@samarchist74]

A poet, a prophet, and an everyday hero. Bless the memory of this man.

[@continentalvictory]

One of the most gifted songwriters ever.

[@reidspeed77]

Good thing about being old is you see the wisdom shine in others ✊☘

[@lesliegrauer8853]

can't get this song out of my head, I like it better each time I hear it, wish I hadn't taken so long to know Stan' s music

[@sararixon6083]

I love STAN ROGERS!

[@ghochheimer1]

How I've chosen to honour him, is to support Canadian Musicians by purchasing their music, if I enjoy what I hear on KZbin.He might've been more widely promoted if he'd signed with a major label, but chose to be able to exercise artistic licence.His son Nathan, and brother Garnet continue that practice.So, for Ariel and his four children... Fogarty Cove/Cole Harbour or Borealis Records. Garnets' site is being updated, so Amazon, or as of the summer of 2013, Taz Records in Halifax.

[@cjay7793]

Just found out about him after watching the plane crash documentary Really nice song RIP

[@kathyfox8288]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

[@1r1sh52]

Pure bloody poetry.

[@pacificprospector]

This song is so representative of those leaving the Maritimes and going off to the Alberta oil patch around 1980 or so.

[@Strelnikov403]

More like early-mid 90s. The Maritime Exodus didn't start until after Tobin and the feds executed the fishing industry behind the woodshed.

[@rogerdodger9752]

@@Strelnikov403 Something tells me Stan Rogers isn't singing about the early-mid 1990s.

[@SGCustom1]

This song actually refer's to 'Hermitage Bay, Newfoundland'. I've been told Stan actually had taken a coastal boat around the island, and through talking to locals had written several songs during the trip.

[@dh51334]

I left St Alban's in Hermitage Bay to come to Alberta in 1979.

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

Everybody leaving for Alberta for work, leaving the land of their forefathers behind, while the whales they hunted for generations freely pass without a worry in the world.

[@Wanderingdayo]

Oh vey. Beautiful.

[@samueljacksonactuallylaugh4906]

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 a town that is dying. Now it's many's the boats that have plied on the foam, Hauling away! Hauling away! But there's many more fellows been leaving their homes, Where whales make free in the harbour. It's at Portage and Main you'll see them again On their way to the hills of Alberta. With lop-side grins, they waggle their chins And they brag of the wage they'll be earning. Then it's quick, pull the string boys, and get the loot out, Haul it away! Haul it away! But just two years ago you could hear the same shout Where the whales make free in the harbour. Free in the harbour; the blackfish are sporting again Free in the harbour; untroubled by comings and goings of men Who once did persue them as oil from the sea, Hauling away! Hauling away! Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay, Where the whales make free in the harbour. Well, it's living they've found, deep in the ground, And if there's doubts, it's best they ignore them. Nor think on the bones, the crosses and stones Of their fathers that came there before them. In the taverns of Edmonton, fishermen shout Haul it away! Haul it away! They left three hundred years buried up the Bay Where the whales make free in the harbour. Free in the harbour; the blackfish are sporting again Free in the harbour; untroubled by comings and goings of men Who once did persue them as oil from the sea, Hauling away! Hauling away! Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay, Where the whales make free in the harbour.

[@pacificprospector]

Cape Breton is an Island, but I suspect many make the mistake that Scotia is an "Island".

[@Strelnikov403]

This song is about (the residents of) Hermitage Bay, Nfld. Unrelated to NS, though it's about NS-relevant issues and was written here.

[@showdoglq]

@Breiavis somehow, having his ashes scattered to sea seems fitting.

[@whippy107]

Stan.

[@cecilsheppard9495]

Rogers.

[@jeff61177]

@Breiavis He Does, Take a trip to Nova Scotia, meet the people of that Islands harbors and towns, He lives there still.

[@vaughnsalem]

they waggle their chins ,,great lyrics ,haha ,love stan

[@MisterKingKickass]

[@taurnguard]

Get the tool out?

[@purestress2597]

Probably a large hook for hauling

[@daver8521]

Harpoon.

[@shelleyskrepnek5398]

On a drilling rig, when drilling has gone down far enough, pipe needs to be laid in, and the drill bit (the tool) is pulled up by a string.

[@daver8521]

@@shelleyskrepnek5398 What does that have to do with whales?

[@shelleyskrepnek5398]

@@daver8521 Young men left the fishing villages in Newfoundland where whales were once hunted to become rough necks in Alberta's oil patch. Hauling away refers to both bringing in the body of a whale, and bringing the tool out of the oil rig. The analogy is quite clear.

[@patrickatcheynum7972]

One dislike wow

[@EEYore-py1bf]

It's 2 now.

[@trentonbarton809]

@@EEYore-py1bf Nope, 3

[@alleycat8589]

4 now, & hopefully no more. It's ridiculous to dislike music!