Ron Hynes - No Change In Me

A little slide show made from shots by Candace Owen. The shots were taken around Newfoundland.

The song is "No Change In Me", by Ron Hynes. It was co-written by Ron and Murray MacLauchlan. A song about Newfoundlanders leaving their homes even though they want to stay. They leave for better jobs and a bigger chance.

Thanks to Ron for being so nice. :) I won't trade the guitar. Hope to see you again really soon!

Lyrics:

You could shoot off a cannon
Down the middle of Bond,
and attract no attention in downtown St. John's.
This getting nowhere is getting to me
Wondering where can you go
To be all you can be

No regular Joe wants to pull up and go
Just to wind up homesick
Where there's no one you know
Just a smoke and a beer
And the sports on T.V.
Being sorry you left
With no chance but to leave

No change in the weather
No change in me
I don't want to leave
But you can't live for free
You can't eat the air
And you can't drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me

You could shoot off a cannon
From the top of Long's Hill
And a Gulliver's taxi might be all that you'd kill
We were promised the sun and the moon and the stars
We got weathered old clapboard
And salt rusted cars

So I'll join in the leaving like all of the rest
For Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver West
Lay down on the sidewalk
And kick off and die
Watch people not looking
As they hurry by

No change in the weather
No change in me
I don't want to leave
But you can't live for free
You can't eat the air
And you can't drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me

No change in me
I don't want to leave
but you can't live for free.
Down here, you can't live for free.
And you can't eat the air
and you can't drink the sea...

No change in the weather
no change in me.

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[UISTMAN59]

There is not enough of Ron Hymes on the Tube. I haven't heard this one before. Thanks for posting. ****

[YoungSpaniard]

No problem. :) He played the song live as an encore last time I saw him and I absolutely fell in love with it! The picking is perfect.

[kidtronic]

ron,

You made me cry. My favourite song writer and I've heard a lot. Good harbour.

Afganistan is a hard hill.

[YoungSpaniard]

Thanks for commenting. It's a gorgeous song, isn't it? Truly amazing.

[starvolume]

Beautiful song. I wish I was back on the Hill.thanks

[YoungSpaniard]

No problem. Thanks for the comment!

[Twainiac]

Bravo... Great job Young Spaniard.

[kirk379]

This is my Favorite version as will... Ron is a true Newfoundland legend ...I would love to hear his version of {From Clare TO HERE } by Ralph Mc tell ..because Ron is such a great singer and Songwriter will he's one of the best.....

[dcmolloy]

i love all these pics, petty harbour being my home town, is there any way i can access these pics?? would love to have some on my computer?? tanks

[ethanarpit]

This is St John's, NL. This is where I live. I just came back few hours ago from 35th Annual Folk Festival I was volunteering there n thats where I heard him live. He is awesome thus I am here now, Yes by.

[VideosOfNewfoundland]

awsome, awsome, awsome, awsome 150,000********** gold stars!!

[theanswer71]

How in Gods name does one person "dislike" this....... sad

[andrewmercercanada]

Great song, thanks for posting.

[thenamesmikayla]

This song is so beautiful and I'm truly honored to be able to sing it in a music festival today. Ron Hynes is simply a legend in my mind.

[musicmusing]

just discovered Ron Hynes. He really inspires me to write lyrics

[rdvqc]

Ron wrote this with Murray McLauchlan some years back. First time I heard was by Murray on his old CBC show "Swinging on a Star"

This is probably the best version I've heard and one of Ron's that I don't have

[StringsAndVerses]

I tried to find the guitar tabs of this...no where to be found on the 'web. Can someone post the guitar tabs or notes to this song, pretty please ?

[StringsAndVerses]

The Ennis Sisters did a nice cover of this song; wish someone would put that on YouTube.

This song is pretty much applicable to many of us from throughout Atlantic Canada.