Originally Posted by
Lightning Pilot
And I hope this is encouraging to others facing similar challenges. As the Stan Rogers song says:
"No matter what you've lost,
be it home, a love, a friend,
turn to and put out all your strength
of arm and heart and brain.
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
Congratulations from me also on your recovery and victory against the odds.
But I have to say that you're the first person I've "met" who knows who Stan Rogers was. I live in Michigan and am close enough to Canada that we picked up on his music quite a while ago and have most of his CDs. But now, even in Canada, I'm not sure how many people remember him. I remember a a friend who came back many years ago from a vacation in Nova Scotia who said to me something like "What's the deal in every bar in Halifax where everyone keeps singing this
Barrett's Privateers song?" I've never been there but I wonder if anyone's still at it.
Goddamn them all, I was told, we'd sail the seas for American gold,
Fire no guns, shed no tears,
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers.