The Loss Of The Straits Pride

G C G December 14, 1990, the straits pride two sailed out st. john's harbour D on her way to fish the banks of the virgin island waters G C G with the four-man crew on board along with two brothers D G to do the job that they had learned passed down by their fathers C G many times they sailed the sea to feed their family D through hardship and danger, they were a special breed G C G all men become brothers working on the sea D G the faith of the straits pride two no one could foresee C G they were on the way back in with some fish in the hole D the waves they were very high and the wind was bitter cold G C G with nighttime coming on them and still a long way out from shore D G the crew of the strait pride two didn't know what lay in store C G forty miles from port December 17 the skipper he called me in D we were taking on some water boys and it looks pretty grim G C G twenty minutes later the straits pride called back again D G our stabilizer just let go and there's no turning in D G D# G# C# G# we're going to abandon ship boys to the life raft try to get in D# the skipper never had much time to make plans for his men G# C# G# into the freezing waters, every man did go D# G# three men lost their life that day out on the icy shoal C# G# it was late that evening that three men had been found D# but only to find out that their brothers had gone down G# C# G# but through all the sorrow they knew they must go on D# G# E brothers of the straights pride two we will remember you A D A many's a time they'd sailed the sea to feed their family E through the hardship and danger, they were a special breed A D A all men became brothers working on the sea E A my brothers of the straights pride two we will remember you E D A B A my brothers of the straights pride two we will remember you