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Acadian Driftwood Lyrics

The war was over and the spirit was broken
The hills were smokin' as the men
withdrew
We stood on the cliffs
Oh, and watched the ships
Slowly
sinking to their rendezvous
They signed a treaty and our homes were
taken
Loved ones forsaken
They didn't give a damn
Try'n' to raise a
family
End up the enemy
Over what went down on the plains of Abraham


Acadian driftwood
Gypsy tail wind
They call my home the land of
snow
Canadian cold front movin' in
What a way to ride
Oh, what a way
to go

Then some returned to the motherland
The high command had them
cast away
And some stayed on to finish what they started
They never
parted
They're just built that way
We had kin livin' south of the
border
They're a little older and they've been around
They wrote a letter
life is a whole lot better
So pull up your stakes, children and come on
down

Fifteen under zero when the day became a threat
My clothes were
wet and I was drenched to the bone
Been out ice fishing, too much
repetition
Make a man wanna leave the only home he's known
Sailing out of
the gulf headin' for Saint Pierre
Nothin' to declare
All we had was
gone
Broke down along the coast
But what hurt the most
When the people
there said
"You better keep movin' on"

Everlasting summer
filled with ill-content
This government had us walkin' in chains
This
isn't my turf
This ain't my season
Can't think of one good reason to
remain
I've worked in the sugar fields up from New Orleans
It was ever
green up until the floods
You could call it an omen
Points ya where
you're goin'
Set my compass north
I got winter in my blood

Acadian
driftwood
Gypsy tail wind
They call my home the land of snow
Canadian
cold front movin' in
What a way to ride
Ah, what a way to go