Daniel Lanois - Acadie (Unreleased)

Описание: Recorded live in 1989 at the Diamond Club, Toronto with Malcolm Burn, Daryl Johnson and Ronald Jones. This song was never released into an album. Acadie tells a story during the battle of the Plains of Abraham, Quebec City.

From the window on the Fleuve St. Laurent
many sails are blowing over Fleur de Lis
And it's no surprise to us the gentils gents
that the British have come now for Acadie

Oh no, no, Francine don't cry
Dry your eyes for I must go
And we fought them on the General Montcalm
as they climbed up to the Plains of Abraham

Where are you Francine?
My eyes are blinded by the smoke,
the powder and the dust
Where are you Francine?

Our lives are shattered by the rush
of the redcoats forward thrust
With the guns they pounded the blue sky to black,
and the farmers fought with the swift blade in hand

When a bullet hit Montcalm in the back,
we had lost our leader run straight from command
Oh no, no, Francine don't cry
Dry your eyes for you must go

On a ship that sails away toward your land,
I'll soon be with you in Louisiane
In the dust I lay with no feeling in my place,
and my friend is looking very hurt there in the dirt,
with a bloodied-soldier shirt

Oh no, no, Francine don't cry
Dry your eyes for you are now
Far away from the land of Acadie
in Louisiane where we will be free