The stories behind Rhode Island - Ocean State Signal

• Ocean State Signal: Rhode Island's Compact Coastal Care Song — Rhode Island - Ocean State Signal follows a biomedical technician keeping small coastal clinics connected.

Lyrics

Before the gulls begin their morning rounds

I cross the pier where the ferry horn sounds

With a canvas case and a salt -stained coat

Checking every lifeline on the harbor from

the clinic lamp to the lighthouse beam i keep

small machines steady as a dream

Rhode Island, ocean state signal

Calling every heart from the bay to the hill

When the tide runs high, we hold the line

Care stays connected in

Rhode Island time Hands on the harbor, hope in the air

Keeping coastal care moving everywhere

Rhode Island, hear that bright refrain

One close -knit shore through the wind and rain

A fisher brings a monitor down

It's quiet numbers ticking like a clock I

tune the leads, replace the worn out wire

While neighbors share coffee beside the tire

The sailing crews know what the nurses know

Trust is the current that helps us go

Oh

Ocean State signal calling every heart from the bay to the hill when the tide runs high

We hold the line care stays connected in

Rhode Island time Hands on the harbor, hope in the air

Keeping coastal care moving everywhere

Rhode Island, hear that bright refrain

One close -knit shore through the wind and rain

From Block Island morning to

Narragansett Blue Every little fix is a promise

coming through No matter which inlet, no matter

how far We carry one another like a compass

star

Rhode Island, ocean state signal

Calling every heart from the bay to the hill

When the tide runs high, we hold the line

Care stays connected in

Rhode Island time Hands on the harbor, hope in the air

Keeping coastal care moving everywhere

Rhode Island, singing once again

One close -knit shore,

one dependable boyfriend friend the boats

head home as the evening turns gold and working

lights as we're still connected