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In the town of Lunenburg down Nova Scotia way
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In nineteen twenty-one on a windy day
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A sailing ship was born, "Bluenose" was her name
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You'll never see her kind again

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Bluenose, the ocean knows her name
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Sailors know how proud a ship was she
C   D     G              Em
Bluenose, leaning in the wind
C            D           Em
Racing ev'ry wave on the sea


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Her hull was long and black, her sails were snowy white
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She looked just like a young bird in flight
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And from the very first, the Bluenose loved to run
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She loved the smell of sea and sun

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C   D         G               Em
Bluenose, the ocean knows her name
C                D                G  B7
Sailors know how proud a ship was she
C   D     G              Em
Bluenose, leaning in the wind
C            D           Em
Racing ev'ry wave on the sea

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For twenty-five long years she ruled the Northern sea
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Riding like a queen on the tide
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In the Caribbean one dark and stormy day
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She ran into a reef and died

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C   D         G               Em
Bluenose, the ocean knows her name
C                D                G  B7
Sailors know how proud a ship was she
C   D     G              Em
Bluenose, leaning in the wind
C            D           Em
Racing ev'ry wave on the sea

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Now just the other day, down Nova Scotia way
Em                             D
In Lunenburg they christened a ship
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Just like the old Bluenose, down to the very name
Em                    B7   Em 
The Bluenose lives to sail again

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C   D         G               Em
Bluenose, the ocean knows her name
C                D                G  B7
Sailors know how proud a ship was she
C   D     G              Em
Bluenose, leaning in the wind
C            D           Em
Racing ev'ry wave on the sea