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Stan Rogers Quotes

1949–1983 Canada

Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.

Canada
Singer-songwriters
Singers

Random Stan Rogers quote

7 quotes

Rise again
Rise again
That her name not be lost to the knowledge of men.

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
To find there but the road back home again.

Northwest Passage (1981)

Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.

Northwest Passage (1981)

No matter what you've lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

Oh, the year was seventeen seventy-eight (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!)

Barrett's Privateers (1976)

Race the roaring Fraser to the sea.

Northwest Passage (1981)

And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stan Rogers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.