SHORES OF NOVA SCOTIA

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Cypress Choral Music · Shores of Nova Scotia – SATB – by Isabel Belina; arr. Frances Farrell

featuring the Cypress Studio Singers

Cypress Choral Music · 03) Nova Scotia On And On- Sweet Home Canada Suite – by Isabel Belina

Listen to Isabel sing the original – CD available: click here

LYRICS

We sailed upon the ocean
We crossed the brooding sea
With our few possessions
And our babes upon our knee
To the shores of Nova Scotia
Where from out the rain and cold
Came the wind to raise our spirit
And sooth our weary souls.

We learned to till the earth
And our men went out to sea
To provide a living
For our growing families
On the shores of Nova Scotia
Where through all those many years
Came the winds to raise the spirit
And calm our ancient fears.

Refrain:

On and on, tireless wind, over land and sea
On and on, dawn to dawn, for eternity

From every generation born
The restless ones must leave
They tell us that it’s beVer there
Well that’s what they believe
But the shores of Nova Scotia
Are for me the only place
Where the winds can raise the spirits
Across all time and space.

Refrain:

We sailed upon the ocean
We crossed the brooding sea
With our few possessions
And our babes upon our knee
To the shores of Nova Scotia
Where from out the rain and cold
Came the wind to raise our spirit
And sooth our weary souls.