Make And Break Harbour

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How still lies the bay, in the 
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light western airs
      Dm            F         G
Which blow from the crimson horizon
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Once more we tack home, with a 
        G
dry empty hole
       Dm            F          G
Saving nets with the breezes so fair
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She's a kindly cape islander, old
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 but still sound
       Dm          F         
But so lost in the long liners 
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shadow
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Make and Break and make do, but 
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the fish are so few
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That she won't be replaced should 
    C
she flounder

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Verse II:

Now its so hard to not think of 
before the big war
When the cod went so cheap, but so 
plenty
Foreign trawlers go by now with long
 seeking eyes
Taking all where we seldom take any
And the young folk don't stay with 
the fisherman's ways
Long ago they all moved to the 
cities
And the ones left behind old and 
tired and blind
Won't work for a pound, for a penny.

Chorus:
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In Make and Break Harbour the boats 
are so few
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Too many are hold up and rotten.
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Most towns stand empty old nets 
       F
hung to dry
    G          F        C
Are blown away lost and forgotten


Verse III

Now I can see the big draggers that 
stirred up the bay
Leaving lobster traps smashed on the
 bottom
And they think it don't pay to 
respect the old ways
That make and break men have not 
forgotten
For we still keep our time to the 
turn of the tide
In this boat that I built with my 
father
Still lifts to the sky, "wan loller"
 and I
Still talk like old friends on the 
water