Unlucky Sailor

Oh did they bring you flowers did the church bells ring?
Did this cold ground ever feel your lover's tears?
When you dreamed of those far away lands did you dream
That you might ever spend eternity here-- poor sailor
That you might spend eternity here

All I hear is the wind and the dry leaves that blow
On a stormy night, can you still hear the sea?
To sleep beneath a stone so close to your home
So far from all those places you always wanted to see
Some day, all those places you always wanted to see

CHORUS
Unlucky sailor on dry land to stay
Would you rather be forever beneath the rolling waves
Some kind soul placed a stone here to say
Here's an unlucky sailor lying in a nameless grave
Lying in a nameless grave

Four times 40 winters have all come and gone
It hardly matters now but did you love, and were you brave?
But for these weathered stones and the stories we tell
You'd be long forgotten lying in a nameless grave
Poor sailor, lying in a nameless grave

CHORUS
Unlucky sailor did you know the end was near
Unlucky sailor, did you pray that you'd be saved?
On an unlucky ship on an unlucky day
You're an unlucky sailor lying in a nameless grave

© 2003 by Harvey Reid

As recorded on #122 "Wreck of the Isidore"

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