Farewell Montreal, I make my amends

Before my accusers, my foes and my friends

And beg for the pardon of God and the Crown

For striking the fire that swallowed the town.

Farewell to Ti-Claude, mon seul bien-aimé

But I cannot follow and you could not stay

So if you should come to the land of the free

The blackened Atlantic will tell you of me.

Farewell mes enfants, I leave you alone

With wet clay to suckle and blankets of stone

My love gave me one and le Sieur gave me two

But none doomed to linger the cold winter through.

Farewell ma Maîtresse, you devil of whores

Who fed by the labour that never was yours

So when you grow feeble, to heaven you plead

May God show you mercy as you showed to me.

Farewell mon esprit, perhaps you shall rise

As smoke from my pyre escapes to the skies

Perhaps you shall vanish like ash in the wind

No stone left to mark me, no name and no kin.

Chords: (3/4)

     G         C      G

Farewell Montreal, I make my amends

   C         Em         Am           D

Before my accusers, my foes and my friends

     G           Em       Am           Bm

And beg for the pardon of God and the Crown

       C          G         Am        D   G

For striking the fire that swallowed the town.