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Lighthous Keepers Dream

from Live at Crystal Gardens by Jim Moffatt

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In Calgary Alberta I lived in a place called Pleasant Manor. It was full of musicians and circus folk and my friend Scott Parsons lived there too. It was a wonderful place. In the back we had a very large gravel parking lot. No body had a car so we turned it into a jamming bonfire every weekend. It was famous and the city police used park and watch us but we never had a single problem.
One day Scott says "Jim you got a minute?" We walked out to the front of the building and both started to laugh when we saw that someone had stolen the l from the name sign. It was then that Scott told me he had to go home back to PEI. His parents were very ill, he was going home. I was very sad to hear he was leaving and I asked him when he would come back. He said "go and ask me wife" That is how I now start this song. Scott's song. I tell this story with its many embellishments and "Go and ask me wife"

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Lighthouse Keeper’s Dream

A sailor stands upon the dock
Admiring his craft
That sits just at the water line
So proudly painted last
Eager to get underway, heave to and raise the sails
And never be the same again, if he lived to tell the tale.

Sailing through North Cumberland
A cold, relentless strait
At the wheel all night while an Eastern gale
Left us wonderin’ our fate
But the skipper knew his boat like other men may know their wives
And we sailed through the canal locks in the early mornin’ light.

(Chorus)
Old sailors will tell you, the sea’s no easy life
And if you don’t believe me boys, ah well go and ask me wife.

I recall a lighthouse keeper, in some old forgotten bay
And he gave us tea and oranges, and he listened to me play
And he said “I’ve been here for years, maybe twenty years or more,
And my son comes down from Halifax, in summertime for sure.”

(Chorus)

Have you ever been to Rustico, the folks there like their beer
And they work a lot at the irish moss and you can make a buck I hear
Will Daley got too drunk one night, after selling a big load
And he lay there on the road and died, God only knows what for.

(Chorus X2)

Words and music Scott Parsons

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from Live at Crystal Gardens, released May 6, 2016
Writen by Scott Parsons.

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Jim Moffatt Victoria, British Columbia

"Why do I do this?” In the simplest terms it’s "I write, therefore I am." Corny, sure, but I actually hear myself thinking in song. Everything from the mundane to the serious... in my minds "ear" I hear melody lines and music when I am pondering .
Does that make me nuts? Maybe. Some of the songs that play in my head I am driven to share, to experience them with others. I am a song writer. ... more

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