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All colours bleed to red
Asleep on the ocean's bed
Drifting on empty seas
For all my days remaining
But would north be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Dark angels follow me
Over a godless sea
Mountains of endless falling,
For all my days remaining,
Why Should I Cry For You~Sting
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The night was dark, rain falling down
Looked for my baby she's nowhere around
Traced her footsteps down to the shore
'Fraid she's gone forever more
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice crying in the deep
Come join me baby in my endless sleep
Why did we quarrel, why did we fight
Why did I leave her alone tonight
That's why her footsteps ran into the sea
That's why my baby is gone from me
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice crying in the deep
Come join me baby in my endless sleep
Ran in the water, heart full of fear
There in the breakers I saw her near
Reached for my baby, held her to me
Stole her back from the endless sleep
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
You took your baby from me away
My heart cried out, she's mine to keep
I saved my baby from that endless sleep
Endless Sleep
_________________ Evan Williams
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I had a keeper, he helped me warn the ships at sea.
We had grown closer, 'till his joy meant everything to me.
And he was to marry, a girl who shone with beauty and light.
And they loved each other, and with me watched the sunsets into night .
Chorus:
And the waves crashing around me, the sand slips out to the sea.
And the winds that blow remind me, of what has been, and what can never be.
She had to leave us, my keeper he prayed for a safe return.
But when the night came, the weather to a raging storm had turned.
He watched her ship fight, but in vain against the wild and terrible WIND.
In me so helpless, as dashed against the rock she met her end.
The Lighthouse's Tale` Nickel Creek
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My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.
Of this union there came three:
A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me.
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.
One night when I was a-trimmin' of the glim,
A-singin' a verse of the Evenin' Hymn,
A voice from the starboard shouted "Ahoy"
And there was me mother, a-sittin' on a buoy.
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.
"What has become of my children three?"
My mother then she asked of me.
"One was exhibited as a talking fish
And the other was served on a chafing dish."
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.
Well, the phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair;
I looked again and me mother wasn't there.
A voice came echoing out of the night:
"To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.
-- old folk song; performed and recorded by Burl Ives and others
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http://www.corfid.com/gl/wreck.htm (Scroll down for background music)
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'.
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya.
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
May have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early! THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD
___________________________________GORDON LIGHTFOOT
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Pale was the wounded knight who bore the rowan shield;
loud and cruel were the ravens' cries that feasted on the field,
saying "Beck water cold and clear will never clean your wound -
there's none but the Witch of the Westmoreland can make thee hale and sound."
Archie Fisher
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Try to tell a Knight in gold
He's to blame
A promise made, a dream will come,
It's all the same.
In this strange land
This strange land...
Clannad, Strange Land
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That unseeing eye, reminds me of a midnight dream.
It reminds me of somebody, that I have never seen.
Boys, you'd better be careful, about what you, say or do.
You'd better be careful boys, about what you, might say or do.
That Unseeing Eye, is, always, watching you.
Seems like you don't care, about what you say
Seems, like you don't care, about the places you go
Seems like you don't care, what you say or do
But that Unseeing Eye, is, watching you.
Unseeing Eye
__________________________Sonny Boy Williamson
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seems like
SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME
(by T. Anderson; (c) 1970)
Nighttime is only the other side of daytime
but if you've ever waited for the sun
you know what it's like to wish daytime would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
Hard times are only the other side of good times
but if you ever wished hard times were gone
you know what it's like to wish good times would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
Help me, seems like a long time
seems like a long time, seems like a long, long time
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
And don't it seems like a long time
seems like a long time, seems like a long, long time
You know it makes me sad
seems like a long time, seems like a long time
seems like a long, long time
War time is only the other side of peace time
but if you've ever seen how wars are won
you know what it's like to wish peace time would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seems like a long, long time
*as performed by Brewer & Shipley, and Rod Stewart.
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It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a long time gone.
And it appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long time,
Yes, a long, long, long, long time,
Before the dawn.
Turn, turn any corner.
Hear, you must hear what the people say,
You know there's something that's goin' on around here,
That surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day.
And it appears to be a long, (yes it does)
Appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long time,
Such a long, long, time,
Before the dawn.
from A Long Time by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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