The Star Above Rankin's Point lyrics

This island's quiet

Wnter's always dark and cold

But I know, when summer comes around again

The fishing boats will line its shores

I never had a care until the year

I fell in love with a mainland boy who told me

"I'll take you far from here from Rankin's shores

We'll set our oars"

He died that winter in the logging camps

Laid down in snow

Folks said you can't presume to know the will of God

He called him home, left me

Summer came in late that year

Still my father kept the lighthouse burning bright

Like a star above Rankin's Point

He led the fishing boats home to port each night

He told me, "Count your blessings

And hold on tight to what can't change

Here we've got the tower's light, the season's turn

And the seals to sing you lullabies"

And so the years went tripping by like springtime

I watched my father slowly getting old

And when he climbed the tower for the last time

I manned the light alone

I learned to count my blessings

To hold on tight to what's my own

I'll always have the tower's light, the season's turn

And the seals to sing my lullabies

Yes, I'm the star above Rankin's Point each night