Free In The Harbour

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[Verse 1]
            G                   C
Well it's blackfish at play in Hermitage Bay
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From Pushthrough across to Bois Island
       G                              C
They broach and they sprout and they lift their flukes out
          Am                     D
And they wave to a town that is dying
          Em                          C
Now it's many's the boats that have plied on the foam
 Am            C        D
Hauling away, hauling away!
      G                G7           C             Am
But there's many more fellows been leaving their homes
            D                      G      C  D
Where the whales make free in the harbour


[Verse 2]
         G                        C
It's at Portage and Main, you'll see them again
          D                     G      C  D
On their way to the hills of Alberta
      G                     C
With lop-sided grins, they waggle their chins
           Am                         D
And they brag of the wage they'll be earning
              Em                              C
Then it's, "Quick, pull the string boys, and get the tool out
 Am            C        D
Haul it away! Haul it away!"
          G         G7             C              Am
But just two years ago, you could hear the same shout
            D                      G
Where the whales make free in the harbour


[Chorus]
  Am         D
Free in the harbour
      C                      G
The blackfish are sporting again
  Em         C
Free in the harbour
    Am        C/B           C        D
Untroubled by comings and goings of men
    G                       G7
Who once did pursue them as oil from the sea
 C             A7
Hauling away, hauling away!
             G                       Am
Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay
            D                      G
Where the whales make free in the harbour


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
              G                     C
Well, it's a living they've found, deep in the ground
                D                     G            C  D
And if there's doubts, it's best they ignore them
      G                       C
Nor think on the bones, the crosses and stones
          Am                        D
Of their fathers that came there before them
        Em                   C
In the taverns of Edmonton, fishermen shout
  Am            C        D
"Haul it away! Haul it away!"
             G           G7          C          Am
They left three hundred years buried up on the Bay
            D                      G
Where the whales make free in the harbour


[Chorus]
  Am         D
Free in the harbour
      C                      G
The blackfish are sporting again
  Em         C
Free in the harbour
    Am        C/B           C        D
Untroubled by comings and goings of men
    G                       G7
Who once did pursue them as oil from the sea
 C             A7
Hauling away, hauling away!
             G                       Am
Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay
            D                      G
Where the whales make free in the harbour


[Coda]
  Am            D        G
Free in the harbour... again