Navigators - Pulling Oil From The Sand

      [Intro]

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[Verse]

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Fishing on the prairies after the fish has gone
C                                  D      G
Don’t care for the weather, longs for the fog
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Dreams of boy hood days hauling traps and setting trawls
 C             Am            D                  G
Headed out the bay each day spring time to the fall


[Chorus]

         C              G          D                Em
Catching fish was never easy, hard work for boy and man
           C                G                   D            G
Where the wind is warm and breezy, when its blowing off the land
     C                 G             D                  Em
Its hard to leave the island, for a place that he cant stand
       C              G              D            G         D Em D
And a part of him is dying, pulling oil from the sand


[Verse]

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People say don’t worry, cuz he can have it all
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In a place like fort mcmurry, or fort Saskatchewan
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But in his mind he lingers, and in his heart hes there
    C             Am             D            G
Out in the skiff, with his dad, far away from here


[Chorus]

         C              G          D                Em
Catching fish was never easy, hard work for boy and man
          C                 G                D               G
Where the wind is warm and breezy, when its blowing off the land
     C                 G             D                  Em
Its hard to leave the island, for a place that he cant stand
       C              G              D        G      D  Em  D
And a part of him is dying, pulling oil from the sand


[Verse]

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Now each day he looks across, and the sky is everywhere
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And at night he looks up at the starts, the nights are oh so clear

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It reminds him of the ocean, though its far away from here
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It will never ever leave him, one day he’ll go back there


[Chorus]

         C              G          D                Em
Catching fish was never easy, hard work for boy and man
          C                 G                D               G
Where the wind is warm and breezy, when its blowing off the land
     C                  G            D                  Em
Its hard to leave the island, for a place that he cant stand
       C              G              D          G        D  Em  D  G
And a part of him is dying, pulling oil from the sand