Stan Rogers

Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.

Northwest Passage (1981)

 * Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a northwest passage to the sea.


 * Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.


 * Race the roaring Fraser to the sea.


 * To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again.

Barrett's Privateers (1976)

 * Oh, the year was seventeen seventy-eight (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!)


 * God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold we'd fire no guns -- shed no tears! Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers.

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

 * Rise again Rise again That her name not be lost to the knowledge of men.


 * No matter what you've lost Be it a home, a love, a friend Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.


 * And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go