Tonalité : F major
Verse 1
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Up from the poor man's cottage,
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forth from the mansion door,
sweeping across the valley
and echoing along the shore.
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Caught by the morning breezes,
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borne on the evening gale,
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comes the voice of mourning,
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a sad and solemn wail.
Lost on the Lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more,
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Numbered with those three hundred
who failed to reach the shore.
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Staunch was the noble steamer,
precious the freight she bore,
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Gaily she loosed her cables
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a few short hours before,
Grandly she swept our harbour,
joyfully rang her bell,
Little thought we e 'er mourning,
to a toll so sad a knell.
Lost on the Lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more,
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Numbered with those three hundred,
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who failed to reach the shore.
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A thunderstorm at midnight,
big seas began to roll.
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One hundred miles of water
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was the noble steamer's goal.
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But a fatal slash on her port side
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from a schooner bearing pine.
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An eerie silent shrouded all,
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the dying engines whined.
Lost on the Lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more,
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Numbered with those three hundred
who failed to reach the shore.
Oh, here's to Captain Wilson,
may his soul forever rest,
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When his noble steamer
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plunged beneath the surging crest,
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Leading songs and prayers
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for every woman, man, and child,
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He bravely faced the elements
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on that long night so wild.
Lost on the Lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more,
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Numbered with those three hundred
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who failed to reach the shore.
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And here's to Edward Spencer
who lived along the shore.
That night the waves
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came breaking in
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with cries above the roar.
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Sixteen times he plunged into the
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boiling surf to rest,
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another's soul to safety asking,
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did I do my best?
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Oh, tis the sound of children
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crying for parents gone.
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Children slept that evening,
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but orphans woke at dawn.
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Sisters for brothers weeping,
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husbands for missing wives,
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such were the ties dissevered
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by those 300 lives.
Lost on the lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more.
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Numbered with those 300
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who failed to reach the shore.
Lost on the Lady Elgin,
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sleeping to wake no more,
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Numbered with those 300
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who failed to reach the shore.
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