Free In The Harbour

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[Verse 1]
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Well it's blackfish at play in 
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Hermitage Bay
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From Pushthrough across to Bois 
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Island
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They broach and they sprout and 
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they lift their flukes out
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And they wave to a town that is 
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dying
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Now it's many's the boats that have
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 plied on the foam
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Hauling away, hauling away!
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But there's many more fellows been
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 leaving their homes
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Where the whales make free in the 
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harbour


[Verse 2]
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It's at Portage and Main, you'll see
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 them again
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On their way to the hills of 
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Alberta
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With lop-sided grins, they waggle 
their chins
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And they brag of the wage they'll 
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be earning
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Then it's, "Quick, pull the string 
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boys, and get the tool out
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Haul it away! Haul it away!"
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But just two years ago, you could 
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hear the same shout
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Where the whales make free in the 
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harbour


[Chorus]
  Am         D
Free in the harbour
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The blackfish are sporting again
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Free in the harbour
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Untroubled by comings and goings 
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of men
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Who once did pursue them as oil from
 the sea
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Hauling away, hauling away!
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Now they're Calgary roughnecks from
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 Hermitage Bay
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Where the whales make free in the 
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harbour


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Well, it's a living they've found, 
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deep in the ground
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And if there's doubts, it's best 
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they ignore them
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Nor think on the bones, the crosses 
and stones
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Of their fathers that came there 
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before them
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In the taverns of Edmonton, 
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fishermen shout
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"Haul it away! Haul it away!"
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They left three hundred years 
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buried up on the Bay
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Where the whales make free in the 
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harbour


[Chorus]
  Am         D
Free in the harbour
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The blackfish are sporting again
  Em         C
Free in the harbour
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Untroubled by comings and goings 
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of men
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Who once did pursue them as oil from
 the sea
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Hauling away, hauling away!
             G                     
Now they're Calgary roughnecks from
  Am
 Hermitage Bay
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Where the whales make free in the 
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harbour


[Coda]
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Free in the harbour... again