Downbound On Superior

Intro 
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[Verso 1]
 
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On a logging road by the old Cliff Mine 
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I'd walk the headlands above the pines 
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I was young and the world was new 
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And a boy had time to dream what he would do 
 


[Verso 2]
 
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I'd often wander to this lonely place 
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And let the sun caress my face 
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And breathe in deep the icy spray 
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Blowing on the wind across from Thunder bay 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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On the horizon I could see at last 
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Another big steel freighter closing fast 
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The cold grey silence in her wake 
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As she plows a lonely furrow down the lake 
 


[Refrão]
 
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Downbound on Superior headed to the lakes below 
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To ports I'd only read about and wished that I could go 
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I stand here in this clearing now and gaze up from the shore 
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But seldom see the ore boats anymore 
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Oh I seldom see the ore boats anymore 

{Instrumental} 
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[Verso 4]
 
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Plumes of smoke would gently rise 
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And drift behind them back down the skies 
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slagging homeward one more time 
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These very gallant ladies of the light 
 


[Verso 5]
 
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And I count out loud as they go rolling past 
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All of her hatches from fore to aft 
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They were laden deep with the record haul 
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For the steel mills down in Gary, Detroit or Montreal 
 


[Refrão]
 
F              G             C              F 
Downbound on Superior headed to the lakes below 
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To ports I'd only read about and wished that I could go 
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I stand here in this clearing now and gaze up from the shore 
    C              G            Am    F 
But seldom see the ore boats anymore 
     C              G            C 
Oh I seldom see the ore boats anymore 

{Instrumental} 
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[Verso 6]
 
            C                           G 
And just as quiet, and graceful as they came 
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I'm left behind with nothing but her name 
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Turning out her heels, slipping out sight 
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If the weather held she'd make the Soo by early morning light 
 


[Refrão]
 
F              G             C              F 
Downbound on Superior headed to the lakes below 
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To ports I'd only read about and wished that I could go 
  F             G                     C                F 
I stand here in this clearing now and gaze up from the shore 
    C              G            Am    F 
But seldom see the ore boats anymore 
     C              G            C    F 
Oh I seldom see the ore boats anymore 
  C              G            Am    F 
I seldom see the ore boats anymore 
    C              G            C 
You seldom see the ore boats anymore 
 

Outro 
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