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The Flowers Of Bermuda

Biography:

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

Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces and, later, the farms of the Canadian prairies and Great Lakes. Rogers died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797 on the ground at the Greater Cincinnati Airport at the age of 33.

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G C D G
He was the captain of the Nightingale
G D C D
Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
D C D G C
He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
D C G
When he died on the North Rock shoal

C D G
Just five short hours from Bermuda
D C D
In a fine October gale
C D G C
O there came a cry, " Oh, there be breakers dead ahead
D C D
From the collier Nightingale

C D G
No sooner had the captain brought her round,
D C D
Then came a rending crash below
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Hard on her beam ends groaning, went the Nightingale
D C G
And overside her mainmast goes

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"O captain are we all for drowning,"
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Came a cry from all the crew
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"The boats be smashed! How are we all then to be saved?
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They are stove in through and through

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O are ye brave and hardy collier men
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Or are you blind and cannot see
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O the captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound
D C G
And it shall carry all of we

G C D G
He was the captain of the Nightingale
G D C D
Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
D C D G C
He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
D C G
When he died on the North Rock shoal

C D G
But when the crew were all assembled
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And the gig prepared for sea
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'Twas seen there were but eighteen places to be manned
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And nineteen mortal souls were we

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But cries the captain," now do not delay
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Nor do you spare a thought for me
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My duty is to save you all now if I can
D C G
see ye return quick as can be

G C D G
He was the captain of the Nightingale
G D C D
Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
D C D G C
He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
D C G
When he died on the North Rock shoal

G C D G
Oh, there be flowers in Bermuda
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Beauty lies on every hand
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And there be laughter ease and drink there for every man
D C D
But there is no joy for me

G C D G
For when we reached the wretched Nightingale
G D C D
What an awful sight was plain
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O the captain, drowned, was tangled in the mizzen chains
D C G
Smiling bravely beneath the sea

G C D G
He was the captain of the Nightingale
G D C D
Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
D C D G C
He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
D C G
When he died on the North Rock shoal

Tabbed from this version of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUei-0WYC4