Martin Hartwell Story
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F C
Lost up in no-man's land
G7 C
In the Northwest Terri-tories
F C
They were lost up in no-man's land
G7 C
The Marten Hartwell story
G7 C
The Marten Hartwell story
C
On November the 8th of '72
G7 C
North of the Arctic Circle
C
A plane took off from Cambridge Bay
G7 C
And the pilot's name was Hartwell
F C
He had to make it to Yellowknife
G7 C
Al-though the night was stormin'
F C
To save the lives of an Eskimo boy
G7 C
And a pregnant Eskimo woman.
C
"Oh, Mr. Hartwell," said the nurse
G7 C
"I pray that you will guide us
C
To save this woman with her child
G7 C
And the boy with appendi-citis."
F C
But the wind, it blew and the storm, it grew
G7 C
And the signal of Kan-twoita
F C
They missed by miles and flying wild
G7 C
They crashed beside Lake Hota.
***Chorus
C
Now Judy Hill, the federal nurse
G7 C
She never lived to waken
C
And the life of the mother and her child
G7 C
Were both soon after taken
F C
But the pilot woke to find himself
G7 C
And the Eskimo boy were livin'
F C
Left in pain be-side the plane
G7 C
To search the skies of heaven.
C
Day by day the pilot lay
G7 C
With both his ankles broken
C
And it took the lad everything he had
G7 C
To keep the fire stokin'
F C
While in the sky too far away
G7 C
The rescue team were seakin'
F C
A signal wave that might be traced
G7 C
The Hartwell's radio beacon
**Chorus
C
After nineteen days the aerial search
G7 C
Was said to be com-pleted
C
Until someone cried, "They're still alive
G7 C
And the search must be re-peated."
F C
And the day the beep was finally heard
G7 C
Was the day we'll all re-member
F C
A man was found safe and sound
G7 C
On the 9th day of De-cember.
C
Hartwell said he should have died
G7 C
At 35 below zero
C
And the reason Hartwell did survive
G7 C
The boy had died a hero,
F C
"He brought me food when I couldn't move
G7 C
While he himself grew feeble
F C
Yes, Davy Koutouk died a saint
G7 C
And a credit to his people
F C
Davy Koutouk died a saint
G7 C
And a credit to his people."
***Chorus
***repeat last line of chorus slowly***
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