One, two, a-one-two-three-four

Welcome to the friends who have come from away
Welcome to the locals who have always said they'd stay
If you're comin' from Toledo or you're comin' from Taipei
Because we come from everywhere, we all come from away

Welcome to the Rock

An islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander

Welcome to our island with its inlets and its bays
You could keep on heading east, but there's an ocean in the way
Where everything is meant to be, but nothing goes as planned
And the drunkest fellas in the room are playin' in the band

Welcome to the Rock

With all the new security
Kids aren't even allowed up into the cockpit anymore
Of course, on my retirement flight
I brought my whole family into the cockpit on our way back to Gander

I came back with the scholarship money we raised
Now worth over a million dollars

I bring out the Irish Whiskey and we have ourselves a toast

Nick and I just couldn't make the long distance relationship work

So, I moved to Texas, and then I proposed

And we honeymooned in Newfoundland

My new secretary's name is Robin

What's up?

Every year on September eleventh, I close my office
And give each employee one hundred dollars
To go and do random good deeds for strangers
It's my way of remembering what happened

Beulah and I still keep in touch
She even came to visit me in New York
And I'll still phone her if I hear a really stupid joke
Beulah, why are Newfoundlanders terrible at knock-knock jokes?

I don't know, Hannah

Well, try it, I'll be a Newfoundlander

Knock-knock

Come on in, the door's open

The donation we are most honored by just arrived today

It's about four meters long and twelve hundred kilograms

Newfoundland is the only place outside the United States
We're we share the steel from the World Trade Center

On the northeast tip of North America
On an island called Newfoundland, there's an airport
And next to it is a town called Gander
Tonight, we honor what was lost
But, we also commemorate what we found

You are here, at the start of a moment
On the edge of the world where the river meets the sea
Here on the edge of the Atlantic
On an island in between there and here

I'm an islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander
There and here
I'm an islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander
There and here
I'm an islander, I am an islander
I'm an islander, I am an islander

Welcome to the bog, welcome to the trees
A kiss and a cod and whatever's in between
To the ones who've left, you're never truly gone
Our candle's in the window and the kettle's always on

To the coves and the caves
And the people from the planes

Five days

Nineteen animals

And seven thousand strays

I'm an islander, I am an islander
When the Sun is setting and it's darker than the north
I'm an islander, I am an islander
If you're hopin' for a harbor, then you'll find an open door
In the winter from the water to whatever's in the waves
I'm an islander, I am an islander
To the ones who have come from away, we say

We say, welcome to the

Welcome to the, welcome to the
Welcome to the, welcome to the
Welcome to the, welcome to the rock