Stan Rogers

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

Quotes

Northwest Passage (1981)

• 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.

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

• Race the roaring Fraser to the sea.

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

Barrett's Privateers (1976)

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

• 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.

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

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

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

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