WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Gordon Bok - The Boats Of Peters River Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Not a boat in Peter's River or in all Saint Mary's Bay
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The fishermen in rubber boots are staying home today
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Hanging out the laundry or hang out in the store
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And the Little Boats of Newfoundland are idle on the shore
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The men of Peter's River are just barely getting by
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And the boats of Peter's River have their bottoms to the sky
[Verse]
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The wives of Peter's River are taking up the slack
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The fisheries have ended, and it's never coming back
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Sell a little knitting, set some broody hens
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No sooner does a hard day end, another one begins
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The wives of Peter's River are too strong to sit and cry
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And the boats of Peter's River have their bottoms to the sky
[Verse]
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The boys of Peter's River are bright as boys can be
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Their eyes are on the highway instead of on the sea
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Where their fathers went before them, is not where they must go
G D A D
And the fate of Peter's River is not for us to know
G D A D
The boys of Peter's River are too young to wonder why
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And the boats of Peter's River have their bottoms to the sky
[Verse]
G D
The storms of Peter's River have pounded us for years
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Crashing in the harbour and smashing up the piers
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We've ridden out these storms before by shooting at our boats
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But we know this storm is different and we cannot stay afloat
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There's no nets in Peter's River, laying out to dry
G D A D
And the boats of Peter's River have their bottoms to the sky
G D A D
There's no nets in Peter's River, laying out to dry
G D A D
And the boats of Peter's River have their bottoms to the sky
