The Martin Hartwell Story

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Lost up in no-man's land
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In the Northwest Territories
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They were lost up in no-man's land
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The Martin Hartwell story
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The Martin Hartwell story

Verse 1

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On November the eighth of seventy two
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North of the arctic circle

A plane took off for Cambridge Bay
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And the pilots name was Hartwell
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They had to make it to Yellowknife
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Although the night was stormin
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To save the lives of an Eskimo boy
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And a pregnant Eskimo woman.

Verse 2


"oh Mr.Hartwell"said the nurse
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"I pray that you will guide us

To save the life of the woman with her child
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And the boy with appendicitis
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But the wind it blew and the storm it grew
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And the signal of controita
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They missed by miles and flying wild
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They crashed beside Lake Hota

Chorus

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Lost up in no-man's land
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Of The Northwest Territories
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They were lost up in no-man's land
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The Martin Hartwell story
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The Martin Hartwell story

Verse 3


Now Judy Hill the federal nurse
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She never lived to waken

And the lives of the mother and child
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Were both soon after taken
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But the pilot woke to find himself
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And the Eskimo boy were livin
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Left in pain beside the plane
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To search the sky's of heaven

Verse 4


Day by day the pilot lay
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With both his ankles broken

And it took the lad everything he had
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Just to keep the fire stokin
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While in the sky to far away
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The rescue team was seekin
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For a signal wave that might be traced
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To Hartwell's radio beacon

Chorus

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Lost up in no-man's land
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Of The Northwest Territories
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They were lost up in no-man's land
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The Martin Hartwell story
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The Martin Hartwell story

Verse 5


After nineteen days the arial search
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Was said to be completed

Until someone cried their still alive
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And the search must be repeated
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And the day the beep was finally heard
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Is a day we'll all remember
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A man was found safe and sound
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On the ninth day of December

Verse 6


Harwell said"he should have died
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at thirty five below zero"

And the reason Hartwell did services
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Is the boy had died a hero
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"he brought me food when I couldn't move,
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While he himself grew feeble,
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Yes,Davy Kutook  died a saint
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And a credit to his people"
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Davy Kutook died a saint
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And a credit to his people

Chorus

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Lost up in no-man's land
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Of The Northwest Territories
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They were lost up in no-man's land
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The Martin Hartwell story
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The Martin Hartwell story