A boat like gideon brown

Oh Gideon lived across the bay He's gettin' older now His boat is big and strong and bold She has a stalward bow But my father's boat was second hand One someone used before And after every fishing trip My father always swore That someday he would save enough To go to St. John's town And buy himself a big new boat A boat like Gideon Brown A boat like Gideon Brown Confederation came around And the days of old age pension He said 'Son I'm saving every cent' And this you must not mention You save the baby bonus too And things just might turn around And we'll have enough to buy a boat A boat like Gideon Brown