DESCRIPTION:
Website: http://www.theknackers.net
Year: 2010
Music and lyrics: K. Thacker / J. Dacey

Well the North Shore is a wild shore and lonesome
and the icy winds can chill you to the bone,
Manitou rules the dark water
and a man here is always alone.

Dark water moves this inland ocean
and the ships here they come day they go,
A man can loose his way out on the water,
and the chains pull heavy from below.

Now the lake moves men like the flotsam, it takes them all far from there homes,
A man may loose his way out on the water,
But a woman is always alone.

Stories of the North Shore are spoken,
of the struggles of the men in the mines
Waves roll up unbroken;
they will wash away the tears in time.

Chorus
Oh laker man, Oh laker man, where you gonna go
Oh laker man where you gonna be
Oh laker man, Oh laker man what are you gonna do
When you're far away from home across the sea.

Ice River runs on back to the lake head,
Shorten day's way into night
The sudden rise now into summer
Will chase away the dark with light

But it's a man that breaks the silence in the Boral
Cutting through the trees and then
Calls out to the ships out on the ocean,
he will bring them all home again.

Chorus
Oh laker man, Oh laker man, where you gonna go
Oh laker man where you gonna be
Oh laker man, Oh laker man what are you gonna do
When you're far away from home across the sea.

Well the North Shore is a wild shore and lonesome,
And the icy winds can chill you to the bone,
Manitou rules the dark water
and a man here is always alone,

Chorus
Oh laker man, Oh laker man, where you gonna go
Oh laker man where you gonna be
Oh laker man, Oh laker man what are you gonna do
When you're far away from home across the sea.

© K Thacker (SOCAN) 2010