Bournemouth Male Voice Choir at St Ambrose Church in Westbourne. We Rise Again is by Leon Dubinsky, who grew up in Sydney and now lives with his wife and children on a seaside property in Cape Breton's Englishtown. Written in 1984 as a hopeful t...  ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreBournemouth Male Voice Choir at St Ambrose Church in Westbourne. We Rise Again is by Leon Dubinsky, who grew up in Sydney and now lives with his wife and children on a seaside property in Cape Breton's Englishtown. Written in 1984 as a hopeful tune for tHe musical THe Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island during a severe economic downturn, it begins: WHen tHe waves roll on over tHe waters And tHe ocean cries We look to our sons and daughters To explain our lives As if a child could tell us why That as sure as tHe sunrise As sure as tHe sea As sure as tHe wind in tHe trees We rise again in tHe faces of our children We rise again in tHe waves out on tHe ocean And we rise again.... THe day He wrote "Rise Again," Dubinsky recalls, He was watching his ailing fatHer observing his grandchildren playing in a swimming pool. Dubinsky's fatHer had immigrated to Canada from tHe Ukraine, settling in Cape Breton; He would die a year later, in 1985. THe words just came to him, Dubinsk...    ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less