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dado potato
10-6-19, 9:15pm
Stan Rogers wrote a line in his song, Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's:

And when I reach that last big shoal,
Where the groundswells break asunder,
Where the wild sands roll to the surge's toll,
Let me be a man and take it,
When my dory fails to make it.

Stan Rogers was 33 when he died due to smoke inhalation and burns while a passenger on a commercial aircraft flying home to Canada. "He will not grow old, as we grow old".

The CBC remembered Stan Rogers in the linked "Rewind" program (53 minutes). http://www.cbc.ca/radio/rewind/stan-rogers-folk-singer-storyteller-proud-canadian-part-2-1.3239078

razz
10-7-19, 7:53am
When people pass away but leave some precious creations behind, they do seem timeless beings whatever the art form but music is especially memorable.