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Stan Rogers
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The town of Wiarton is situated at the mouth of one of the deepest Great Lake
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Ports. For years, over 30% of the Captains and First Mates employed in shipping
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On the Lakes came from this quiet fishing town in the Bruce Peninsula. There
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Are very few families in the town, even now, who have not lost a close
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Relative to the fury of the lakes.]
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Now it's just my luck to have the watch, with nothing left to do
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But watch the deadly waters glide as we roll north to the 'Soo',
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And wonder when they'll turn again and pitch us to the rail
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And whirl off one more youngster in the gale.
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The kid was so damned eager. It was all so big and new.
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You never had to tell him twice, or find him work to do.
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And evenings on the mess deck he was always first to sing,
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And show us pictures of the girl he'd wed in spring.
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But I told that kid a hundred times "Don't take the Lakes for granted.
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They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted. "
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But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton girl lies staring at the wall,
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And her lover's gone into a white squall.
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Now it's a thing that us oldtimers know. In a sultry summer calm
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There comes a blow from nowhere, and it goes off like a bomb.
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And a fifteen thousand tonner can be thrown upon her beam
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While the gale takes all before it with a scream.
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The kid was on the hatches, lying staring at the sky.
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>From where I stood I swear I could see tears fall from his eyes.
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So I hadn't the heart to tell him that he should be on a line,
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Even on a night so warm and fine.
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When it struck, he sat up with a start; I roared to him, "Get down!"
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But for all that he could hear, I could as well not made a sound.
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So, I clung there to the stanchions, and I felt my face go pale,
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As he crawled hand over hand along the rail.
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I could feel her keeling over with the fury of the blow.
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I watched the rail go under then, so terrible and slow.
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Then, like some great dog she shook herself and roared upright again.
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Far overside. I heard him call my name.
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So it's just my luck to have the watch, with nothing left to do
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But watch the deadly waters glide as we roll north to the 'Soo',
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And wonder when they'll turn again and pitch us to the rail
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And whirl off one more youngster in the gale.
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But I tell these kids a hundred times "Don't take the Lakes for granted.
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They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted. "
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But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton girl lies staring at the wall,
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And her lover's gone into a white squall
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