The Fabulous History of the Churchill Falls Barrel Races

(Papa never said much but now Papa say
It is best so . Though I' m not certain becaus ...
our mama cleared her throat)
Yeah he had drag us all over these Americas
From Buenos Aires up to Billings Montana
Today we 're in the southern states of Ameri ...
Somewhere, somewhere, working in some ir ...
My papa had his pick axe propped above hi ...
And without another swing, he heard that v ...
He heard what is said, and he cried out
Christ! Oh not again
He dropped his pick axe right there on the c...
Headed on up out and made a left turn
(That ' s north east to you and I)
My 13 years old sister she gathered up the r...
To see what our papa was going this time, t...
We got outside, we could tell by the hitch in ...
By the stoop in his shoulder
By the angle of his mining boots
He was going back home
Back home to Labrador
We were welcome no more
And she called:
Christ! We gotta stay right here
We got places here
We cannot disappear
Yeah the whole family got caught up in his ...
Picking up those mining rocks whipping the ...
My sister, she took her pick axe
Tried to spade it through my father' s back
But she missed, she throws like a woman
But my sweetheart, my mama, she took off ...
And she cranked my father in the back of th...
He slowed down, and with a sweep of his g ...
He swept up all these articles
He swept up that pick axe
He swept up them mining rocks
He swept up that iron necklace
And he put ' em in his sack
He headed back to Labrador
We were welcome no more
Back home to Labrador
We were welcome no more
Come on!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he went to Buffalo...
He came to Montreal, spoke to some of my ...
He made a left turn at Trois -Rivières and he ...
He looked 127 meters up into the sky
(I don 't know your American conversion)
And a blanch came over his face
And his decision was made
So he took out my sister ' s pick axe
Started hacking away at this maple tree
He cut 16 even pieces, put them in a shape ...
He started hacking away in the stump of thi ...
To make a bottom for the barrel
He started hacking away at this stump of a ...
To make a top for the barrel
He put the barrel on his back
Hitched about a mile up Churchill River
Threw the barrel in the water, into the river
Threw himself into the barrel, into the water...
And started floating down Churchill River
Inside the barrel, he came to Churchill Falls
Went
Down!
And down
He was a bit pissed off at the good fortune ...
You see, he' d been making holes his whole ...
Hiding down inside
And now this one he made from his daught ...
He made too well, too well
So he took this hole of a barrel
Propped it underneath Churchill River
Let it fill up with water from Churchill Falls
He took his rucksack, emptied out the minin ...
Put ' em inside the barrel
He took that pick axe, put it inside the barrel
He took my sweetheart, my mama's neckla ...
He got inside that barrel
And he held that top of the barrel above his ...
And the water sent him down!
You see, there were all these people gather...
To see what this man was doing at Churchil...
He was crouched down inside that barrel
Those mining rocks rubbing against his butt...
That pick axe rubbing against his groin, rub...
And that iron necklace wrapped around his ...
And the people outside, they swore they he ...
Immerse me full Fall River to deliver me my ...
Ladies and gentlemen,
That is the fabulous history of the Churchill ...
And to this day, the contestants of the barre...
For some reason unbeknownst to them
They must were an iron necklace around th ...
And the caller of the race, he doesn 't call 1,...
He doesn 't call "ready, steady, go "
He doesn 't call "on your marks "
But he calls this: Come on
(Papa, goin goin this time
Kept walking, with this hitch in his legs
My sister burn up
We gotta stay right here
Keeps on, with a northern angle to his boots
We gotta face this hell)