Paul Gross - Robert Mackenzie lyrics

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Robert Mackenzie<br />

32 men on a Great Lakes boat<br />

Quit the pier at Thunder Bay<br />

28, 000 tons of coal <br />

On a cold November day<br />

800 feet and 10 more long<br />

80 feet across<br />

The steel mills of Detroit <br />

Our destination through the frost<br />

<br />

At 2 AM on the 2nd<br />

Waves were runnin' up to 40 feet<br />

Winds were blowing 60 miles<br />

Our engines crankin' heat<br />

At 3:13 we took a wave <br />

Our wheelhouse left behind<br />

The radar slipped beneath the waves <br />

And we were runnin' blind<br />

Hear me call across the waves<br />

If I don't come home tonight<br />

I will make it home some day<br />

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CHORUS:<br />

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(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

<br />

A captain name of Phillips <br />

Seekin' shelter from the storm<br />

Turned us south of Bête Grise Bay<br />

By way of Keewenaw point<br />

But the wind was pushin' at such a rate<br />

We ended up driftin' north<br />

A wave broke over a knife of rock<br />

Six Fathom Shoal<br />

<br />

Mackenzie she was cut in half<br />

The stern, she rammed the bow<br />

The men were caught in metal jaws<br />

And the flames burned out of hell<br />

The stern kept running, all her lights ablaze<br />

Not one man would be found<br />

Captain's last transmission read <br />

32 men down<br />

32 men down<br />

<br />

Hear me call across the waves <br />

If I don't come home tonight<br />

I will make it home someday<br />

<br />

(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

(Steel boats and iron men)<br />

32 down on the Robert Mackenzie<br />

Down Down Down Down Down Down Down Down<br />

<br />

And they call across the waves<br />

If I don't come home tonight <br />

I will make it home someday<br />

<br />

Yes, I call across the waves<br />

If I don´t come home tonight<br />

I will make it home some day