Verse 1DGD
In the mid-1960s, the news rang out clear,
GDEmA
Pack your bags and your nets, you must get out of here;
DGD
Take your picks and your shovels, your rakes and your hoes,
GDEmA
The government says you must pack up and go.
Verse 2DGD
Well, the news it soon spread to the harbours and coves,
GDEmA
That the young crowd were leaving in hordes and in droves;
DGD
For to go to Toronto to follow their goals,
GDEmA
Or to go to Placentia to live on the dole.
ChorusDGD
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
GDEmA
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
DGD
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
Verse 3DGD
Now, Skipper Jim Pittman he said he wouldn't go,
GDEmA
While there's nets to be mended and hay to be mowed;
DGD
He said he'd never work, no matter the pay,
GDEmA
In some hockey stick factory out Stephenville way.
ChorusDGD
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
GDEmA
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
DGD
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
Verse 4DGD
Now, on all politicians they cursed and they swore,
GDEmA
They rather would fight off in some distant war;
DGD
For when they ceased to ramble and they ceased to roam,
GDEmA
They'd like to return to a place they called home.
ChorusDGD
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
GDEmA
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
DGD
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
Verse 5]
DGD
Now the islands and harbours and coves are ghost towns,
GDEmA
You need a longliner to harvest the ground;
DGD
And a big oil refinery now stands as a shrine,
GDEmA
To the daughters and sons who remember the time.
ChorusDGD
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
GDEmA
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
DGD
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
ChorusDGD
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
GDEmA
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
DGD
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
OutroGDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
GDGD
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.