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Homesteader

from Northern Sightlines by John Spearn

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My God! Where are we? They’re letting us off
In the middle of the bush and the snow,
The conductor said to find our neighbour
We still had six more miles to go.
I’m prayin’ my story will rhyme
On a quarter section of prime.
We’ve left our family and friends back in time
To stake out our claim if our luck stays in line.
Oh, homesteader, homesteader where are you bound?
From southern Ontario by train
On the endless prairie to God knows where?
I’m needin’ to seed there by spring.
We’re cutting an acre a day, as they say.
But it’s more like woodpile a week.
And the dust and mosquitoes are eating way
My skin and my bones as I speak.
In a soddy old shelter full of dust in the sun
And pouring inside when it rains!
I’ll never get warm from September to spring
And I’ll never breathe salt-air again.
Oh, homesteader, homesteader where are you bound?
From southern Ontario by train
On the endless prairie to God knows where?
I’m needin’ to seed there by spring.

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from Northern Sightlines, released January 1, 1999

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John Spearn Edmonton, Alberta

You’ll instantly catch these deep influences threaded through John’s fine vocals, lyrics, and rootsy, guitar-mastered songwriting works. This is pure Canadiana: forgotten but deserving heroes, the humility in our international image, and a superb range of tender ballads through to raw, foot-stompin’ stories that need to be told. ... more

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