ARTIST: Gunther Anderson and Donna Dubé
TITLE: The Jagged Edge of the Land
Lyrics and Chords


Every summer they come and every summer they go
To the jagged edge of the land
And the old women know that when the winds blow
The sea will take what she can

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  Come fathers and daughters to spend their vacations
  With blankets and sandcastles down by the ocean
  In the wind and the waves they find their salvation
  They don't know the fear of the water so near
  Or the swirling currents below

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The tide rushes in on the wind-driven seas
To hammer away at the land
The children climb onto the rocks to behold
A power they don't understand

  The rocks are all wet from the ocean wind blowing
  A daughter climbs out just to watch the tide roll in
  The sea sweeps her off to the water so cold
  And it comes like a dream, a young girl's scream
  A father cries, No, baby, no!

  He dives in to save her, he can't watch her drowning
  Together they struggle against the waves pounding
  The current so strong, it's pulling them down
  And there's two gone today, the old women say
  They've heard it too often before

Every summer they come and every summer they go
To the jagged edge of the land
The young son and mother still stand there together
And hold on as tight as they can

They search the horizon for husband and sister
Who'll never return to the land
And the old women know that when the winds blow
The sea will take what she can

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