Catherine MacLellan - Family Names lyrics

Walking amongst those graves I stumbled upon yours Your brother being laid to rest just next door All those family names and all those people who I bear resemblance to. At the edge of that field there's a break in the trees Where you can hop onto the train tracks Follow them where they lead All along the coast and out of black cape You can go a long way Land call us home Let's gather round Let's tell the stories that remind us Of where we're all from Let's sing the songs that our parents sang Bring us all together With those family names Harry said he didn't know this place anymore Changed the lay of the land, cut into the shore The water's not even fit for swimming these days From the paper mill on the bay There's a sold sign in the yard of Aunt Doris' house I guess at her age it's too much by herself Still the rhubarb grows behind the garage And she's busy cooking for us all As of old, every new generation has to leave this place Head out into the world to find work that'll pay We're all drawn back here inevitably By the land and the sea