This song is dedicated to the entrepreneurs of Isle Madame.
lyrics
As a fishing boat leaves its port
one fine day in June,
The crew and the captain
leave their families when they go.
The sons are thinking to themselves,
"I'll join my daddy-O
To fish the blue horizon when I'm old."
Chorus:
This little town that grew so quick,
that dwindled with the stock.
You'll never see a dragger
tied up at the docks.
But yet with all the changes,
the jobs are down and out.
This French Acadian fishing town
will survive another drought.
This French Acadian fishing town
will survive another drought.
When I was almost sixteen my father said to me,
"You'd better go to college son
and find a better life.
There is no future for you here
no son, not anymore,"
As he bit his lip, swallowed his pride
and sharpened up his knife.
Chorus
I come to see my daddy-O, my family and I.
Fifteen years since I've been gone
and nothing seems the same.
They closed the plant, they leveled her,
they auctioned off the steel.
It's a cold hard truth
but the government's to blame.
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