A generation's come from here
My father told me stories
Of how he would return one day
And in a time of glory
We were distant by a many miles
Made distant by the sailin'
I've come to stand in Father's place
I heard the night winds wailin'
He was haunted by a melody
He heard so long ago
It came from in his mother's heart
And touched his very soul
Oh I've often heard him speak your name
Although we've never met
I've come to see, for Father now
To put his mind to rest
And when the night lies over you
And I lay gently dreamin'
Although the candle burns no more
The journey's now completed
The past is far behind us now
It was buried in the crossin'
Of time so long forgotten
We were distant by a broken tides
Made distant by the ocean
I've come to stand in father's place
I heard the night winds callin'
He was haunted by a melody
He heard so long ago
It came from in his mother's heart
And touched his very soul
Oh I've often heard him speak your name
Although we've never met
I've come to see for father now
To put his mind to rest
And when the night lies over you
And I lay gently dreamin'
Although the candle burns no more
The journey's now completed
And when the night lies over you
And I lay gently dreamin'
Although the candle burns no more
The journey's now completed
- :
- Miscellaneous
- Joyful Sounds
- Volume One, Songs From the Collection
- Thinking of You
- Reason to Believe
- Flying On Your Own
- The Christmas EP
- Keeping a Canadian Christmas With Don Harron & Catherine...
- Atlantic Standards
- Now! Christmas 2
- Oh What a Feeling
- Late December
- Now The Bells Ring
- Working Man: The Best Of Rita Macneil
- Common Dream
- Rita
- The Ray Hadley Country Music Collection, Vol. 3
- The Sounds of Nova Scotia Vol. 2
- The Sounds of Nova Scotia, Volume 1
- The Sounds of Nova Scotia Vol. 1