Let me sing you songs from the Maritimes Let me sing you songs from the summertide Come times of plenty, times of none As Lady Prosperity comes and goes As Good Lady Fortune makes her rounds Of the Earth A singer of these times These ever changeless times With Brunswick strings and Scotia pipes A singer of these times These ever changeless times Our songs they carry on long past the grave The songs of our forebears strong remain No distance from them in age or in place As we strum and sing the notes of our forebears Let me bring you tides from the Maritimes Let me bring you tides from the wintertime As pines and poplars shrug off the storms And the halls and dwellings open their doors And we know that what December darkness brought Is reversed A singer of these times These ever changeless times With Brunswick strings and Scotia pipes A singer of these times These ever changeless times When Lady Prosperity rides 'cross the land And the sun shines down on sea and forest Wherever she treads — or not — we thrive Tell me, how are we so different from our forebears? Let me bring you tides from the Maritimes Ever changeless tides from the Maritimes We still hail the summer, we still tell our tales We still sing the winter, and toast with our ales So I stand up and shout, my friends What shall ever change? A singer of these times These ever changeless times With Brunswick strings and Scotia pipes A singer of these times These ever changeless times