Past Fifty Lyrics

Rolling down to old maui sung (but not written) by Stan Rogers It's a damn tough life, full of toil and strife, we whalermen undergo, And we won't give a damn when the gales are ...Read Full Lyrics

I took up my pen tonight. I couldn't seem to write. It's like I got religion and then I lost the light An old woman once told me she'd always felt that way She said "Taken from ...Read Full Lyrics

At Lincoln Center, a freak o' weather brought a taste of sea, And I was back in Nova Scotia and all my friends were there with me And they were drinkin' Diamond, singin' Carter a...Read Full Lyrics

Well, it's not the hours of watch-on-watch, And it's not the work that I mind so much, Or the long cold miles from my lover's touch, 'Though for sure she's far away. No strange...Read Full Lyrics

He was Captain of the Nightingale Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale When he died on the North Rock Shore Just five short ho...Read Full Lyrics

I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around. I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground. Far out beyond the tank farm fence where the gas ...Read Full Lyrics

There is a young maiden, she lives all a-lone She lived all a-lone on the shore-o There's nothing she can find to comfort her mind But to roam all a-lone on the shore, shore, shore...Read Full Lyrics

Stan introduced this song on stage, "I don't care what your politics are, when Our children are dying in the streets, it's time to put away the guns. " He Said he'd never write a ...Read Full Lyrics

There were countless skirmishes on the Great Lakes between ships and boats of All makes and sizes during the War of 1812-14. "Well", Stan said, "we won the Damned war but from som...Read Full Lyrics

They neither know of night or day, They night and day pour out their thunder, As every ingot rolls away, A dozen more are split asunder. There is a sign beside the gate, "Elev...Read Full Lyrics