Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:06:41 -0700
From: tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Tim Campbell)
Subject: CAPTAIN TRACTOR: The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
This is the corrections to my file that I sent a while back. Thanks to
Fazoo (fmcclure@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) for sending it to me!
>I`m not a Captain Tractor fan, but I know my Arrogant Worms. Here`s the
>lyrics as off of the Worms`s first album (Hope they help):
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>VERSE 1:
> C F G C
>Well I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
> F C G
>I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
> C F G C
>But the times went by and though I tried the money wasn`t there
> F C G C
>And bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair
> Am D
>I looked for every kind of job the answer always no,
>Am G
>Hire you now they`d always laugh, we just let twenty go
> Am D
>The government, they promised me a measly little sum
> Am G
>But I`ve got too much pride to end up just another bum
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>BRIDGE:
> F C
> Then I thought who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone,
> D G
> I`m gonna be a pirate on the River Saskatchewan... (Arrrrrgh!)
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>CHORUS:
> C C F G C
>`cause it`s a Heave! Ho! High! Ho! Coming down the plains
>F C G
>Stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains
> C C F G C
>And it`s a Ho! Hey! High! Hey! Farmers bar your doors
> F C G C
>When you see the Jolly Rancher on Regina`s mighty shores
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>VERSE 2:
>Well you`d think the local farmers would know that I`m at large
>But just the other day I found an unprotected barge
>I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser
>I rammed the ship and sank it, and I stole their fertilizer
>A bridge outside of Moose Jaw spans the mighty river
>Farmers cross in so much fear their stomachs are a quiver
>`Cause they know that Tractor Jack is hiding in the bay
>I`ll jump the bridge and knock `em cold and sail off with the hay
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>CHORUS
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>VERSE 3:
>Well Mounty Bob, he chased me, he was always at my throat
>He`d follow on the shore line but he didn`t own a boat
>But cutbacks were a comin` so the Mountie lost his job
>So now he`s sailin` with me and we call him Salty Bob
>A swinging sword a scum `n bones and pleasant company
>I never pay my income tax, and screw the GST -- Screw It!
>Prince Albert down to Saskatoon, the terror of the sea,
>If you want to reach the Co-Op boy, you gotta get by me
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>CHORUS
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>VERSE 4:
>Well pirate life`s appealing, but you don`t just find me here
>I`ve heard that in Alberta there`s a band of buckeneers
>They roam the Athabasca, from Smith to Fort McKay
>And you`re gonna loose your Stetson and if you have to pass their way
>Well winter is a comin` and the chill is in the breeze
>My pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze
>I`ll be back in springtime, but now I have to go
>I hear there`s lots of plundering down in New Mexico
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>CHORUS X3
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>Also in the middle they do a cool play on words:
>Arrrrrgh...Matey! Get it? Metis?
>Hey thats Rielly funny, you know, like Louis Riel?
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Timothy J. Campbell 3rd year Civil Engineering Student
University of Alberta Internet: tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Edmonton, Alberta WWW: http://www.ualberta.ca/~tcampbel/homepage.html
