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  1. Lake Winnipeg

From the recording Athabasca

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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