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rocket to the moon
Here hangs an open landscape A wild and huge frontier From a harsh and a barren wasteland Through the grave to the promised field  You came, you trapped, you charted You laid the railroads and the schemes And you tamed this land by enterprise And by the power of your dreams  But you made this Clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose With your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon  From the olden coasts of Ireland From the Hebridean shores With the forgotten chosen ones Running from Europe in droves  But you made this Clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose With your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon  There's a town in Manitoba They say the windows touch the sky But across the brine the shipyards close In this garden flowers die  Still the homelands divide us Like your blood red brothers of the plains But where they grieve a candle still burns A prayer from a flicker to a flame  But you made this Clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose With your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon