The Bluenose
(as recorded on album "A Time With Ryan's Fancy")

1. In the town of Lunenburg
Down Nova Scotia way
In 1921 on a windy day
A sailing ship was born
Bluenose was her name
Will we ever see her kind again?

Chorus:
Bluenose the ocean knows her name
Sailors know how proud a ship was she
Bluenose leaning in the wind
Racing every wave of the sea.

2. Her sails were snowy white
They strained against the mast
The spray blew high as she went rolling past
As from the very first,
Bluenose liked to run
She liked the smell of sea and sun.

3. For twenty-five long years
She ruled the northwest sea
Racing like a queen on the tide
Then in the Caribbean
One dark and stormy night
She ran into a reef and died.

4. Now just the other day
Down Nova Scotia way
In Lunenburg they christened a ship
Just like the old Bluenose
To her very name
The Bluenose lives to sail again.