Stan Rogers - The Last Watch.wmv

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@borealranger9763 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this song for a long time. Listening now on my cell phone from a shoal near Tobermory, in eyeshot from the final resting place of a couple of wrecks around these parts. This song, and Stan's discography, make me feel that it's better for old ships to go down in the seas they once plied, rather than being broken up for scrap like the Midland. Pouring a little out for Stan and all the old sailors from an age before mine.

@KevinAtkins_Indiana 4 жыл бұрын

Paddling, or motoring, or sailing? Ice is gone so early, and now we're all trying not to breathe on each other.

@borealranger9763 3 жыл бұрын

@@KevinAtkins_Indiana Paddling

@jamesmcleod2536 6 жыл бұрын

This song hits pretty close to home. When my dad passed away from cancer I spent the last nights of his life with him, in the morning I received a phone call at home that he was gone. In the hospital room where he laid there was an awful silence more terrible than a scream. It was the last night to be with him and the last night he would be home.

@randybenjamin5685 Жыл бұрын

I've driven truck 33+ years. This is My Last Night in my sleeper cab. Thank you, Stan . For giving voice to what I cannot. ❤

@Chronic420X 9 жыл бұрын

The one person who thumbed this down, I will find you. I will find you and... Give you a big hug, because you are in desperate need of a big hug

@calebmarston4729 7 жыл бұрын

Cosmic Vagabond I think that's the best comment I've ever read. It is a sad song so it could have hit a bit too close, still if you need a first mate on this project, let me know

@HeidisHereAndThere 6 жыл бұрын

LOLOL!! Brought a smile to my face! blessings from Washington State USA

@altareggo 5 жыл бұрын

48th like. Thanks for the hug!!

@rhys2792 4 жыл бұрын

Good luck. No one aint ever gonna hug me. You won't even get the chance hahah

@wesleythomas7125 4 жыл бұрын

You'se a bro, you are.

@charverz 5 жыл бұрын

I remember over 35 years ago I had to tell my younger sister that she wouldn't be going to see Stan that night - that he'd been killed in an airplane fire. And last November, after 30 years with my company, I was called in and offered "a package".

@charverz 4 жыл бұрын

@@jimhabsfan A reference to Stan's song "Last Watch on the Mystic" - "At sixty-four, you're still the best; One year more, and then you're less Than dust upon the floor. So here's to useless superannuation... In fairness I was almost 67, but had hope to work until 70.

@AradiaChappell Жыл бұрын

Now or never.

@neonmoon82 9 жыл бұрын

One of my many favorite vinyl recordings. I have all of Stan's recordings.

@lking8263 9 жыл бұрын

Always brings tears to my eyes.

@anelson8856 3 жыл бұрын

You know a song is good when you wake up randomly at 4am and the first thing you think of is to play it.

@jenniferweston7621 6 жыл бұрын

I've reached an age where the tragedy he describes - growing old and being considered useless- cuts especially deep.

@jefframblerman8268 7 жыл бұрын

WOW, I know this feeling so very well, Far too many wonderful machines are destroyed just because they are old. :'(

@09impala 3 жыл бұрын

Thought of this song with the scraping of the Mississagi

@BadlanderOutsider 9 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of all the times I've been told 'Look watch over this decent steel and wood for we will break it for scrap despite the fact it is all good and could do us all Sterling service.

@bbowen85 11 жыл бұрын

I read that it was the City of Midland. Note that he doesn't say outright that she was going to be scrapped, and also "the last night she's whole," which, while it could have been poetic license, could have been intentional.

@sooline3854 10 жыл бұрын

I thought this came from a vinyl. I could hear the crackling that occurs. I wish I had Stan in my vinyl collection.

@jhd501 10 жыл бұрын

They dragged her down, dead, from Tobermory, Too cheap to spare her one last head of steam, Deep in diesel fumes embraced, Rust and soot upon the face of one who was so clean. They brought me here to watch her in the boneyard, Just two old wrecks to spend the night alone. It's the dark inside this evil place. Clouds on the moon hide her disgrace; This whiskey hides my own. CHORUS It's the last watch on the Midland, The last watch alone, One last night to love her, The last night she's whole. My guess is that we were young together. Like her's, my strength was young and hard as steel. And like her too, I knew my ground; I scarcely felt the years go round In answer to the wheel. But then they quenched the fire beneath the boiler, Gave me a watch and showed me out the door. At sixty-four, you're still the best; One year more, and then you're less Than dust upon the floor. So here's to useless superannuation And us old relics of the days of steam. In the morning, Lord, I would prefer When men with torches come for her, Let angels come for me.

@AirtonRaphael 4 жыл бұрын

I love this one!!!

@NK892 10 жыл бұрын

It must be about SS Midland City, which was run aground in 1955. The SS City of Midland was still in service as a ferry until 1988 and wasn't cut into a barge until 1997, both long after Stan was killed in 1983.

@HrHaakon 5 жыл бұрын

I don't actually think it's about a ship at all...

@toasterofdoom9629 5 жыл бұрын

@@HrHaakon pretty sure it is. Stan sang extensively about sailing, none of which were metaphors, so IDK why this one would be different.

@ghochheimer1 11 жыл бұрын

Ogdens' Beach, or Ogdens' Beach Rd., rings a bell with me. Have you heard "White Squall" or "LockKeeper"?.Stan knew the stories from the Great Lakes and Georgian Bay well, and of course the stories from friends and family from Guysborough County (Canso, Fogarty's Cove)down here. Do you know of anyone from Midland who saw him perform? GH, Halifax (Midland, Port McNicoll)

@EurekaMaruu 12 жыл бұрын

I spent my childhood swimming and snorkeling on the wreck of the SS Midland City, a lake steamer which was run aground and intentionally burned to the waterline just outside Midland, Ontario. Is this the ship from the song? It seems to fit much better with the lyrics than the SS City of Midland, which survives as a barge today.