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All hands are awake tonight, the weather it is rough,
The skipper smiles and all hands note, he's not a hand to bluff;
The wheel he grasped, the waves they crashed, the night is not so clear,
But he'll push her hard with no regard to make it home this year.
A giant of a man he stands, our skipper brave and strong,
But he promised us two weeks ago that we would make St. John's,
To celebrate the Christ Child's birth with the families oh so dear,
To visit our community to spread our Christmas cheer.
I'll try to make it home again this year,
By land or by sea, I think of you and me;
If I could I'd take a plane that roars across the sky,
For Christmastime in Newfoundland and my own piece of mind.
But the sea is unforgiving, it drove us up and down,
But lucky we did have a ship that was so very sound;
We rode our way past Baccalieu and down by Logy Bay,
The people that we missed so much were not too far away.
We pushed along the coastline till a break came in the rock,
The roughest trip we ever made was one mile from the dock;
Boys, I kept my promise, the skipper he did say,
We passed by Fort Amherst light on that cold Christmas Day.
I'll try to make it home again this year,
By land or by sea, I think of you and me;
If I could I'd take a plane that roars across the sky,
For Christmastime in Newfoundland and my own piece of mind.
So people that we know who work on the land or on the sea,
Remember that if possible it's home that they would be,
To celebrate this blessed time with family oh so dear,
To say they made it home again for Christmastime this year.
I'll try to make it home again this year,
By land or by sea, I think of you and me;
If I could I'd take a plane that roars across the sky,
For Christmastime in Newfoundland and my own piece of mind.
I'll try to make it home again this year,
By land or by sea, I think of you and me;
If I could I'd take a plane that roars across the sky,
For Christmastime in Newfoundland and my own piece of mind.
It's Christmastime in Newfoundland, now I have piece of mind.
Recorded by Shanneyganock (Christmas, trk#10, 2004, Avondale Music, St. John's, NL).
