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Have you ever seen a sunrise on a flat calm reach?
Have you ever seen the magic of a humpback breach?
Have you pondered the mystery of a jellyfish school?
Have you waded through the water in a spannytickle pool?
Have you ever seen a morning with twenty shades of grey?
Have you peeped at an eagle's nest from twenty feet away?
Have you sung with your friends around a big old driftwood fire?
Have you floated down across the cove on a tube from a tire?
All these things are out there, you don't have to pay;
Just open your eyes and you'll be surprised
What you see out the bay.
Have you ever seen an iceberg carved by the unseen hand?
Have you ever seen a northeast gale when it first strikes the land?
Have you taken a boat ride on a moonlit bay,
Have you followed its rippling ribbon that made it look like day?
Have you followed the shoreline, hoppin' from rock to rock,
Smellin' sea and feeling free never knowing where to stop?
Have you ever copied ice pans on an April day,
Or have you gone beyond those things and forgotten how to play.
All these things are out there, you don't have to pay;
Just open your eyes and you'll be surprised
What you see out the bay.
All these things are out there, you don't have to pay;
Just open your eyes and you'll be surprised
What you see out the bay.
What you see out the bay.
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From the Dictionary Of Newfoundland English:
Copied - jumped from one floating pan of ice to another in a children's game or pastime of following or copying a leader when the ice is breaking up in spring in a cove or harbour.
Pan - a piece of flat ice, varying in size and shape but roughly circular.
Spannytickle - the threespine stickleback. Any of a variety of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus spp); small fish about 1-1/2 inches long with three thorn-like projections on their back found in fresh or brackish water.
