Tiger Bay
(Frank Hennessy) 
Chorus:
He came a long long way from Tiger Bay
On the wild wide sea to be free free free

He worked his daily fourteen hours below
And rarely saw the sunset or sunrise
He watched his little family try to grow
But he could see the sorrow in her eyes
He sold up nearly everything he owned
In the terraced house he rented from the mine
Said goodbye to all the friends he'd ever known
And sailed away in nineteen twenty-nine

They huddled upon deck against the cold
Smiling through the tears they tried to hide
And they wondered what the future years would hold
As they headed for Toronto on the tide
A steelworks gave employment at the start
But what they found was worse than what they'd left
And with the dream of freedom burning in their hearts
September found them heading for the West

At Calgary they saw the winter out
But the icy northern winds came thick and wild
And late one night he heard his lady shout
The time had come to have their precious child
He did his best to save the seed he'd sown
And soon he heard his baby's gentle cry
But the new life she had given cost her own
And he saw the love light dying in her eye

The preacher's words made such a lonely sound
As they laid her body in the frozen clay
And the dreams they'd shared were buried underground
In the foothills of the Rockies far away