
Date of issue: 14.11.2019
Record label: Stomp
Song language: English
Dear Old Stan |
From the streets of old Victoria to fair old Mabou town |
From Portage to Spadina listen closely for the sound |
A voice still echoes softly through the rivers and the plains |
So don’t you dare stop listening and don’t forget his name |
Arise and be merry |
And sing out while you can |
The world will never see the likes |
Of dear old Stan |
The Yanks have Woodie Guthrie, The British Ralph McTell |
The Celts have got the Corries, aye and Ronnie Drew as well |
Adge Cuter sings of cider out in the west country |
But I am a Canadian, and so I say to thee |
Arise and be merry |
And sing out while you can |
The world will never see the likes |
Of dear old Stan |
When I was just a nipper bouncing on my mummy’s knee |
‘twas Harris and the Mare me boys she sweetly sang to me |
And as I closed my eyes beneath the Northern moon so pale |
I dreamed I was the Captain standing on the Nightingale |
Arise and be merry |
And sing out while you can |
The world will never see the likes |
Of dear old Stan |
At the Wolf and Hound Vancouver, just for a pint or two |
These blokes were singing Old Maui from the whales' point of view |
I thought of old Stan Rogers and walked straight out the bar |
And started up the Dreadnoughts, and here we bloody are |
Arise and be merry |
And sing out while you can |
The world will never see the likes |
Of dear old Stan |
Arise and be merry |
And sing out while you can |
The world will never see the likes |
Of dear old Stan |
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