Very nice modern day ghost story. The smuggler is running heavily-taxed goods from the French islands of St. Pierre into Newfoundland when he crashes attempting to evade an RCMP patrol boat.
My favourite line is probably "and he never saw the jail" specifically because of the context of its repetition. When it appears in the first verse, it's a testament to his skill as a smuggler. It's repeated rather wistfully in the last verse, lamenting his death rather than praising his ability to evade capture.
Very nice modern day ghost story. The smuggler is running heavily-taxed goods from the French islands of St. Pierre into Newfoundland when he crashes attempting to evade an RCMP patrol boat.
My favourite line is probably "and he never saw the jail" specifically because of the context of its repetition. When it appears in the first verse, it's a testament to his skill as a smuggler. It's repeated rather wistfully in the last verse, lamenting his death rather than praising his ability to evade capture.