Stan Rogers Quotes

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

Stan Rogers

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

Stan Rogers

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.

Stan Rogers

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

Stan Rogers

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

Stan Rogers

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

Stan Rogers

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.

Stan Rogers

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

Stan Rogers

Stan Rogers

Stan Rogers

Born: November 29, 1949

Died: June 2, 1983 (aged 33)

Bio: Stanley Allison Stan Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.

Known for:

Fogarty's Cove (1976)
Home in Halifax
From Coffee House to Concert Hall
From Fresh Water

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