Dear Old Stan

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[Verse]
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From the streets of old Victoria to fair old Mabou town
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From Portage to Spadina listen closely for the sound
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A voice still echoes softly 'cross the rivers and the plains
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So don't you dare stop listening and don't forget his name

[Chorus]
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Arise and be merry
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And sing out while you can
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The world will never see the likes
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Of dear old Stan

[Verse]
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The Yanks have Woodie Guthrie, The British Ralph McTell
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The Celts have got the Corries, aye and Ronnie Drew as well
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Adge Cutler sings of cider out in the west country
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But I am a Canadian, and so I say to thee

[Chorus]
  D           G
Arise and be merry
     Am                Em
And sing out while you can
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The world will never see the likes
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Of dear old Stan

[Verse]
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When I was just a nipper bouncing on my mummy's knee
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'Twas Harris and the Mare me boys she sweetly sang to me
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And as I closed my eyes beneath the Northern moon so pale
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I dreamed I was the Captain standing on the Nightingale

[Chorus]
  D           G
Arise and be merry
     Am                Em
And sing out while you can
     C                G
The world will never see the likes
     G   D    G
Of dear old Stan

[Verse]
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At the Wolf and Hound Vancouver, just for a pint or two
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These blokes were singing Old Maui from the whales' point of view
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I thought of old Stan Rogers and walked straight out the bar
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And started up the Dreadnoughts, and here we bloody are

[Chorus]
  D           G
Arise and be merry
     Am                Em
And sing out while you can
     C                G
The world will never see the likes
     G   D    G
Of dear old Stan

  D           G
Arise and be merry
     Am                Em
And sing out while you can
     C                G
The world will never see the likes
     G   D    G
Of dear old Stan