Biography:
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian indie folk band which formed in 2003 in Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada. The band began with Tony Dekker (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Erik Arneson (banjo, guitar, harmonium), Bret Higgens (bass), Julie Fader (keyboards, vocals) and Greg Millson (drums). Julie Fader subsequently left, and Miranda Mulholland, on violin and backing vocals, joined.
Fifty-five years ago, Marilyn Bell took a plunge and traversed Lake Ontario.
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Other songs:
- Pulling On A Line
- Your Rocky Spine
- Backstage With The Modern Dancers
- Changing Colours
- Concrete Heart
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Everything Is Moving So Fast
- Great Lake Swimmers
- I Am Part Of A Large Family
- I Became Awake
- I Could Be Nothing
- I Will Never See The Sun
- Imaginary Bars
- Lets Trade Skins
- Moving Pictures Silent Films
- Moving Shaking
- New Wild Everywhere
- On The Water
- Palmistry
- Passenger Song
- Rivers Edge
- See You On The Moon
- She Comes To Me In Dreams
- Song For The Angels
- Stealing Tomorrow
- Still
- The Great Exhale
- The Man With No Skin
- There Is A Light
- Think That You Might Be Wrong
- This Is Not Like Home
- Three Days At Sea Three Lost Years
- To Leave It Behind
- Unison Falling Into Harmony
- Various Stages
- When It Flows
- Where In The World Are You
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Verse 1]
G C G
I was on the water when it began to heave
G Em C D
And at the fight my words were strong
G Em C G
But I would not have imagined that they’d stop making patterns
G Em D G
It’s caps of white, raised and broke I fasten to the boat
[Verse 2]
G C G
The panic overtook me and the fear I held within
G Em C D
I drew a breath and I tried to find the courage
G Em C G
To stand the troubled trip. What have I gotten myself into?
G Em D G
I silently wondered, I silently asked
[Verse 3]
G Em C G
I thought of my family and thought of my love
G Em C D
I thought of my maker and what might be above
G Em C G
And the cabin in the woods that I have not yet built
G Em D G
Many other things that I hold dear in this world
[Verse 4]
G Em C G
I rode through the turmoil and rode through the strife
G Em C D
I held to my words and I clumped to my life
G Em C G
And then when my vision began to blur
G Em D G
This is what I saw and the thought that had occurred
[Verse 5]
G Em C G
I saw every fish swimming fast beside me
G Em C D
And all kinds of leafs from all different trees
G Em C G
And all of the insects that circle on the earth
G Em D G
Birds and land animals are reaching towards birth
[Verse 6]
G Em C G
And I saw my body on a body of water
G Em G D
And I could see that we were the same
G Em C G
Roaring and reckless, invulnerable
G Em D G
Emotion and swinging and predisposed to changing
[Verse 7]
G Em C G
When I open my eyes vision respell
G Em C D
I picked up my oars and I kissed the coldness
G Em C G
With stronger arms I silently swept
G Em D G
I silently drifted, I silently wept
G C G
I was on the water when it began to heave
G Em C D
And at the fight my words were strong
G Em C G
But I would not have imagined that they’d stop making patterns
G Em D G
It’s caps of white, raised and broke I fasten to the boat
[Verse 2]
G C G
The panic overtook me and the fear I held within
G Em C D
I drew a breath and I tried to find the courage
G Em C G
To stand the troubled trip. What have I gotten myself into?
G Em D G
I silently wondered, I silently asked
[Verse 3]
G Em C G
I thought of my family and thought of my love
G Em C D
I thought of my maker and what might be above
G Em C G
And the cabin in the woods that I have not yet built
G Em D G
Many other things that I hold dear in this world
[Verse 4]
G Em C G
I rode through the turmoil and rode through the strife
G Em C D
I held to my words and I clumped to my life
G Em C G
And then when my vision began to blur
G Em D G
This is what I saw and the thought that had occurred
[Verse 5]
G Em C G
I saw every fish swimming fast beside me
G Em C D
And all kinds of leafs from all different trees
G Em C G
And all of the insects that circle on the earth
G Em D G
Birds and land animals are reaching towards birth
[Verse 6]
G Em C G
And I saw my body on a body of water
G Em G D
And I could see that we were the same
G Em C G
Roaring and reckless, invulnerable
G Em D G
Emotion and swinging and predisposed to changing
[Verse 7]
G Em C G
When I open my eyes vision respell
G Em C D
I picked up my oars and I kissed the coldness
G Em C G
With stronger arms I silently swept
G Em D G
I silently drifted, I silently wept
Green Valley
Greenhorns
Greenskeepers
Greensky Bluegra (...)
Greenwood