I have been a sailor for many a long year
There's salt water in my veins
Used to be a whaler off the bleached bone shores
Through the freezing Nantucket rain
The freezing Nantucket rain
I have run through storms with waves so high
I thought every breath was my last
With the wind so strong it tore up the sails
And smashed the matchstick mizen mast
Smashed the matchstick mizen mast
Still I live for days when the anchor weighs
And the sea whispers low
"If you sail on me I'll set you free
Just a sure as the north winds blow"
Just a sure as the north winds blow"
I have been drunk in bars under the stars
In a town near Abeline
Sat up all night as the Northern lights
Turned the skyways green
They turned the skyways green
I killed a Bristol man with my bare hands
Caught him stealing from the crew
Watched my young man drown
In some harbour town
There was nothing I could do
There was nothing I could do
So if you meet an old man at the sailor's rest
And he's sitting, staring out to sea
Buy him a drink and hear his tales
For that old man might be me
That old man might be me
I still remember days when the anchor weighed
And the sea whispered low
"If you sail on me I'll set you free
Just a sure as the north winds blow"
Just a sure as the north winds blow"
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