From the recording A Good Dog Is Lost (A Collection Of Ron Hynes Songs)
Lyrics
You could shoot off a cannon
Down the middle of Bond
And attract no attention, in downtown St. John’s
This getting nowhere is getting to me
Wonder where can you go
To be all you can be
No regular joe wants to haul up and go
Just to wind up homesick
With no one you know
Just a smoke and a beer
And the sports on tv
Feelin' sorry you left
With no choice but to leave
No change in the weather
No change in me
I don't want to leave
But you can't live for free
Can't eat the air, you can't drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me
You could shoot off a cannon
From the top of Long's Hill
And a Gulliver's taxi might be all you would kill
We were promised the sun
And the moon and the stars
We got weathered old clapboard and salt-rusted cars
So let me join in the leaving with all of the rest
To Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver West
Lay down on a sidewalk
Kick off and die
Watching people not looking
As they hurry by
No change in the weather
No change in me
I don't want to leave
But you can't live for free
And you can't eat the air, you can't drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me