From the recording Athabasca
Produced & Mixed by Lloyd Peterson
Sam Baardman: vocals, guitar, keyboards
Lloyd Peterson: organ, percussion
Isaac Dennett: guitar
Rob McLaren: banjo
Gord Mowat: electric bass
Josh Ayers: drums
Scott Senior: percussion
Heitha Forsyth: harmony vocals
Lyrics
LAKE WINNIPEG
dark river dark river, flashing like quicksilver
quietly moving past farm fields and wide sewers
carrying all of us into the future
of Lake Winnipeg
there’s clouds moving over the cold heavy water
a storm’s brewing over great Agassiz’s daughter
millions of wild things are up on the altar
Lake Winnipeg
CHORUS
there’s a line in the sand where water meets land
how long can we stand it, how long can we stand it
there’s a line in the sand where water meets land
how long can we stand it, how long can we stand it
pelican pelican, white washed pelican
scanning the tree line, the sand and the sediment
bright eyes and long feathers, searching for medicine
for lake Winnipeg
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
BRIDGE
six hundred miles of shore
it’s gonna take a hundred years or more
eagle and osprey, black feathered cormorant
circling over the waves and long currents
the waters are empty, they know there’s no cure for it
Lake Winnipeg
CHORUS
there’s sand in the hourglass, time trickles by so fast
what are we waiting for, here on the battered shores
of Lake Winnipeg