This is a railroad type song. It's about Peter C. Bart who worked on the CNR railroad most of his life, and lovd every minute of it.
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Story behind the song
I met Peter Bart while I was playing and singing at the Bridge Tavern in Point Edward in 1996. He told me he has written some songs about the railroad, but he needed help to sing them better. So I put more melody in the songs which he liked. Then I helped him with other songs. He died in 2000, but most of his songs were finished. This is one of them.
Lyrics
PETER BART WAS A POET
AS SOME OF YOU KNOW IT
PETER BART WAS A POET
AND A VERY GOOD POET WAS HE
HE WROTE OF HIS LIFE
ABOUT STRUGGLE AND STRIFE
AND THE RAILROAD'S
THE ONLY PLACE TO BE
NOT ONLY A POET
BUT A SINGER AS WELL
THIS MAN COULD SING FROM HIS HEART
HE WOULD DO HIS BEST
WE'VE BEEN CERTAINLY BLEST
TO HAVE KNOWN
THIS MAN PETER BART
HIS LOVE FOR THE RAILROAD
CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN
IN SO MANY WORDS THAT HE WRITES
WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN
HE TRAVELLED THIS FINE LAND
AND HE VIEWED
MANY BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS
HE WORKED AS A FIREMAN
SHOVELIN' THAT COAL
TO KEEP THE STEAM ENGINE A-GOIN'
HE WORKED MANY YEARS
A-DOIN' JUST THAT
HE HEARD
THE TRAIN WHISTLE A-BLOWIN'
HE CLIMBED UP THE LADDER
TO BECOME ENGINEER
A-SITTIN' AND A-DRIVIN' THE TRAIN
HE LOVED C.N.R.
FOR THE WORK THAT SHE GAVE
AND HE'D DO IT
ALL OVER AGAIN
Spoken:
THESE ARE SOME THINGS
THAT I WANTED TO SAY
ABOUT PETER OUR C.N.R. FRIEND
WHOSE NOW RIDIN' THE RAILS
AWAY UP ABOVE
WHERE LIFE NEVER COMES TO AN END
YOU KNOW TIMES MAY GET TOUGH
BUT WHEN THE GOIN' GETS ROUGH
JUST THINK OF THIS OLD ENGINEER
SPENDING HIS TIME
WRITING WORDS THAT WOULD RHYME
MAYBE CAUSING A LAUGH OR A TEAR
WELL WE BID YOU ADIEU
YOU'RE NOW IN GOD'S CARE
WHERE SOME DAY WE'RE ALL GOIN' BE
A-RIDIN' THAT TRAIN OF GLORY
NOT PAIN
WHERE THE SOULS OF MEN ARE SET FREE
Sung:
AS SOME OF YOU KNOW IT
PETER BART WAS A POET
(break) AND HIS POEMS
HAVE A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS
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