"Harvest Train" genre: Folk
	lo fi play (dial-up) hi fi play (broadband) download (3.5 MB)	email track to a friend	add to My.MP3
	Harvest Trains used to run across Canada in the early years of the last century bringing unemployed maritime workers out to the Prairie Grain Harvest..This song tells the story from the perspective of the families left behindf
	CD: Mining For Gold   Label: Borealis Credits: words and music by James Gordon
	Story Behind the Song Originally recorded by Tamarack, I re-recorded this one for my "best-of" collection Mining For Gold in 2000. It has also been recorded and performed by the great Canadian pop singer Melanie Doane. It was the title track on her debut CD. Lyrics By the time she heard that evening train, he was gone gone gone Heading for those fields of grain in the far Saskatchewan, Times they were so hard and the fish were few What's a maritimer going to do, She sang- Oh my heart The CPR Has taken every good man in Nova Scotia Gone away on that Harvest Train To the prairie's golden ocean Far from me She had sensed his restlessness ever since the autumn came, All those trains were heading west they were calling out his name Every time she heard that whistle blow she wondered if it was his time to go She sang Oh my heart The CPR Has taken every good man in Nova Scotia Gone away on that Harvest Train To the prairie's golden ocean Far from me She said "I curse you William Cornelius Van Horne You don't know what you've done" Taken my love from the place he was born Left me here with his new son, Those prairies always seemed so far away before But now the railway's come and made them close as an All aboard And it's Oh my heart The CPR Has taken every good man in Nova Scotia Gone away on that Harvest Train To the prairie's golden ocean And it's Oh my heart The CPR Has taken every good man in Nova Scotia Gone away on that Harvest Train To the prairie's golden ocean Far from me ©1989 James Gordon SGB PRODUCTIONS

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).