
THEY DON'T DO THAT NO MORE
ISRC: CA06E1500501
SONGWRITERS: DAVE GUNNING/ JIM DORIE

1) THEY DON'T DO THAT NO MORE(3:17) mid-tempo, vocal, harmony vocal, acoustic guitars, pedal steel & upright bass
This song was inspired by our flight at home in Nova Scotia with a local bleached kraft pulp mill that's been dumping untreated industrial euent into a natural body of water at a place called Boat Harbour since 1968. It was once beautiful and pristine, made the short list to become a National Park in the 50's and had an abundant fishery. It is located beside our Pictou Landing First Nations community who no longer have safe water to drink from their wells and who can no longer swim and fish there.

They Don't Do That No More:
They walked everywhere they went and sailed on the wind 
Wasn't even that long ago some still remember when
You could drink the rivers and eat from every shore
Well the tides come and go they don't do that no more

There were dance halls all around there was one on Green Hill,
Where the good old boys and folks from town and all the women dressed to kill
Many met their sweethearts wrote letters back and forth
Now that's all been changed they don't do that no more

They don't do that no more they don't do that no more
They don't write letters back and forth 
They don't do that no more

Every family had a garden somewhere in the yard
Comforting to know you'd always eat if times got hard
And homemade bread was common so was being poor
Now there's credit cards and big box stores they don't do that no more

They don't do that no more they don't do that no more
They spend more than they can afford 
They don't do that no more

They used to camp there with their kids they'd play in the water
The Landing had a fishing fleet she was good as any other
They'd swim out to Pine Island boil fresh dug clams on shore
Then the big mill started going they don't do that no more

They don't do that no more they don't do that no more
There's poison on the harbour floor 
They don't do that no more
They don't do that no more
They don't do that no more

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With a career spanning two decades and 12 albums, Dave Gunning is one of Nova Scotia’s finest singer-songwriters who has earned multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards, a Juno nomination, eight East Coast Music Awards and Music Nova Scotia Awards for his well-crafted work. Dave has gained a solid reputation for being a great storyteller engaging audiences through his songs. Much of his material is about underdogs, heroes, family and the heart. His humility is genuine and his onstage demeanour is unassuming. He has the gift to win over audiences and will have them laughing, crying, singing along and reflecting on the many good things in life. 

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“Truly, what makes Gunning so remarkable as an entertainer is his rare gift to be able to befriend the audience as a whole from the stage throughout the course of the concert. And, indeed, you do feel as though he’s as good of a friend as any after a night of songs, stories and lighthearted laughs.” - The Guardian
“… one of the rising stars in Canadian folk music.” - TheRecord.com

“Gunning is the next big thing in the True North of Song, an artist as compelling, as assured and attentive to every nuance of the writing process, as Lightfoot, Cockburn and Stan Rogers before him.”- Toronto Star

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