Biography:
James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Calgary, Alberta, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the interment of Japanese Canadians, "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. Known for his lilting baritone voice, his driving rhythm guitar, and a keen sense of scene and narrative, Keelaghan’s music bridges traditional folk music with Canadiana.
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Other songs:
- Boom Gone Bust
- Cold Missouri Waters
- Country Faire
- Dance As You Go
- Fires Of Calais
- Get To You
- Gladys Ridge
- Glory Bound
- Harvest Train
- Henrys Downfall
- Hillcrest Mine
- Hold Your Ground
- Hope Princeton Road
- House Of Cards
- I Would I Were
- Jack Haggerty
- Kiris Piano
- Lazarus
- Leave Town
- Lost
- Mcconnvilles
- Mirabeau Bridge
- Misty Mountain
- My Blood
- My Old Man
- My Skies
- Never Gonna Stop This Train
- Next To You
- Nothing
- Number 37
- Orion
- Rebeccas Lament
- Red River Rising
- Red
- Refugee
- Ring
- Safe Home
- Sea For The Shore
- Sinatra And I
- Since You Asked
- Sing My Heart Home
- Small Rebellion
- Snap The Line Tight
- Somewhere Ahead
- Stonecutter
- Sweet Lorraine
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly
- Sweetgrass Moon
- The Boston Burglar
- The Flower Of Magherally
- The Kiss Saskatoon
- The Ones Who Made Home
- Tomorrow Is Another Day
- Turn Of The Wheel
- Whats For You
- Who Dies
- You Know Me
- Your Secret
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James Keelaghan - Refugee
CAPO: 5th Fret
INTRO: C F C F
C
I will write you one last time
You will be here in the morning
I imagine that you're sleeping
F G
On the North Atlantic swell
C
There's a wind in off the sea
Enough to keep me waking
F
Enough to make me think
G
We will say no more farewells
C
All the words that pass between us
A line of pale blue letters
Stretching from the Sambro lighthouse
F G
To the waves around Lands End
C
Now you're following that line
Enveloped by the darkness
F
You'll find me waiting
G C
When you reach its end
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C F C F
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
C
You've left behind your home
I have left behind my family
We have come here to this shore
F G
With the strength to start anew
C
There's a world here for the taking
A safe and steady harbour
F
There's a million things to think of
G
But tonight I'll think of you
C
Well, it's immigrants we are
This land has known no other
There's a million came before us
F G
A million more will follow on
C
An endless wave is washing
On this rocky coastline
F
Carving features in the landscape
G C
Fanning out and moving on
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C F C F
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
C
Tomorrow morning you'll look out
You will see this lovely coastline
From Mitchell Bay to Prospect
F G
It will seem like open arms
C
And those arms will enfold you
Sweep you safe into the harbour
F G
Deliver you from loneliness and harm
C
Tomorrow morning I will climb
Upon the hill above the harbour
I will look out to the East
F G
To where the heaven meets the sea
C
When the ship has come in sight
I will run down to the dockside
F G C
And welcome here just one more refugee
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
G C F C F C
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
CAPO: 5th Fret
INTRO: C F C F
C
I will write you one last time
You will be here in the morning
I imagine that you're sleeping
F G
On the North Atlantic swell
C
There's a wind in off the sea
Enough to keep me waking
F
Enough to make me think
G
We will say no more farewells
C
All the words that pass between us
A line of pale blue letters
Stretching from the Sambro lighthouse
F G
To the waves around Lands End
C
Now you're following that line
Enveloped by the darkness
F
You'll find me waiting
G C
When you reach its end
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C F C F
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
C
You've left behind your home
I have left behind my family
We have come here to this shore
F G
With the strength to start anew
C
There's a world here for the taking
A safe and steady harbour
F
There's a million things to think of
G
But tonight I'll think of you
C
Well, it's immigrants we are
This land has known no other
There's a million came before us
F G
A million more will follow on
C
An endless wave is washing
On this rocky coastline
F
Carving features in the landscape
G C
Fanning out and moving on
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C F C F
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
C
Tomorrow morning you'll look out
You will see this lovely coastline
From Mitchell Bay to Prospect
F G
It will seem like open arms
C
And those arms will enfold you
Sweep you safe into the harbour
F G
Deliver you from loneliness and harm
C
Tomorrow morning I will climb
Upon the hill above the harbour
I will look out to the East
F G
To where the heaven meets the sea
C
When the ship has come in sight
I will run down to the dockside
F G C
And welcome here just one more refugee
CHORUS:
G
All the ones who ran from war
F C
All the wealthy and the wounded
G
That have landed on this shore
F G
They don't mean a thing to me
C
All that matters is the one
Who will be with me tomorrow
G C
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
G C F C F C
It's a lonely heart that loves the refugee
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