Lyrics

Walk up the gangway, wave to the pier,
The time has come to part,
Bound for old Greenland with a sky blue and clear,
It’s farewell, sweetheart
The land far behind us it’s northward we go,
To the waves on the wide open ocean,
With a craft of the nature we’ll easily flow,
With ease to our destination

Hold Strong, for the miles ahead,
Are lonelier than those behind,
Gone now are the lives we once led,
Our home is the water and ice

The bergs flat so freely, the Fulmar so high,
The whales they play undisturbed,
It brings up this longing of days gone by,
When my feet roamed so free on the earth
Now Pond Inlet’s ice-choked and Resolute’s iced-in,
So it’s full steam ahead,
Not as we’d all hoped for it seems like it’s been,
A year since we stood on the land

Hold Strong, for the miles ahead,
Are lonelier than those behind,
Gone now are the lives we once led,
Our home is the water and ice

Somerset’s landscape, rugged and stark,
A beauty that I’ve never known,
Passes so gently on the water so dark,
’Til we call Gjoa Haven home
A land full of bounty, a sea full of life,
A people so full of heart,
Welcome our vessel with arms open wide,
To find true north in these parts

Hold Strong, for the miles ahead,
Are lonelier than those behind,
Gone now are the lives we once led,
Our home is the water and ice