BORDERS AND TIME

(Jimmy Rankin (m & l) )

As sung by the Rankin Family 1993 < North Country >


I think of you all the time
I'll pay for my sins
The heartache begins.

I can't free you from my mind
It seems so these days
I've tried every way.

You have drifted so far from me
The winds of change
Have swept you away.

Oh, night and day
It seems like eternity
Borders and time, have kept you from me.


Blue are the ocean waters
Along a lover's shoreline
You will not be forgotten
But now that you've gone
The heartache lives on.


A warm breeze blows over a gentle sea
The summer is near
The heartache is here.

The fiddler plays an old time melody
The tune is the same
Change the faces and names.


Blue are the ocean waters
Along a lovers' shoreline
You will not be forgotten
But now that you've gone
The heartache lives on.

Blue are the ocean waters
Along a lover's shoreline
You will not be forgotten
But now that you've gone
The heartache lives on.

Oh, borders and time
The heartache is mine.

NOTES:

The Rankin Family are a Canadian musical family group. 
They hail from Mabou, province of Nova Scotia 
(the same province as Rita MacNeil 
(see elsewhere in this ILP database for her work).

The original group of five were made up from twelve siblings,
 all of whom were musically talented. 
 The first group started singing in 1970. 
 They performed Celtic music as well as jigs and reels.

They won a number of Canadian music awards. 
Sadly, many of the members from the original group, 
passed relatively early in life.


(Transcribed by David Story - January 2014)