Martin Hartwell Story chords by Stompin Tom Connors

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Lost up in no-man's land
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In the Northwest Terri-tories
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They were lost up in no-man's land
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The Marten Hartwell story
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The Marten Hartwell story
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On November the 8th of '72
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North of the Arctic Circle
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A plane took off from Cambridge Bay
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And the pilot's name was Hartwell
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He had to make it to Yellowknife
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Al-though the night was stormin'
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To save the lives of an Eskimo boy
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And a pregnant Eskimo woman.
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"Oh, Mr. Hartwell," said the nurse
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"I pray that you will guide us
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To save this woman with her child
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And the boy with appendi-citis."
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But the wind, it blew and the storm, it grew
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And the signal of Kan-twoita
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They missed by miles and flying wild
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They crashed beside Lake Hota.

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Now Judy Hill, the federal nurse
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She never lived to waken
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And the life of the mother and her child
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Were both soon after taken
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But the pilot woke to find himself
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And the Eskimo boy were livin'
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Left in pain be-side the plane
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To search the skies of heaven.
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Day by day the pilot lay
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With both his ankles broken
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And it took the lad everything he had
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To keep the fire stokin'
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While in the sky too far away
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The rescue team were seakin'
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A signal wave that might be traced
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The Hartwell's radio beacon

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After nineteen days the aerial search
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Was said to be com-pleted
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Until someone cried, "They're still alive
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And the search must be re-peated."
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And the day the beep was finally heard
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Was the day we'll all re-member
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A man was found safe and sound
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On the 9th day of De-cember.
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Hartwell said he should have died
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At 35 below zero
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And the reason Hartwell did survive
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The boy had died a hero,
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"He brought me food when I couldn't move
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While he himself grew feeble
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Yes, Davy Koutouk died a saint
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And a credit to his people
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Davy Koutouk died a saint
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