A Life On The Ocean Wave
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com
A life on the ocean wave
A-home on the rolling deep
Where the scattered waters rave
And the winds their revels keep
Like an eagle caged I pine
On this dull, unchanging shore
Oh give me the flashing brine
The spray and the tempest's roar
CHORUS after each verse
A life on the ocean wave, a-home on the rolling deep
Where the scattered waters rave and the winds their revels keep
The winds - the winds - the winds their revels - keep
The winds - the winds - the winds their revels - keep
Once more on the deck I stand
Of my own swift, gliding craft
Set sail, farewell to land
The gale follows fair abaft.
We shoot through the sparkling foam,
Like an ocean bird set free
Like the ocean bird, our home
We'll find far out on the sea
The land is no longer in view,
The clouds have begun to frown.
But with a stout vessel and crew
We'll say Let the storm come down
And the song of our heart shall be
While the winds and waters lave
A life on the heaving sea
A-home on the bounding wave
The author of this website has put a lot of time and effort into gathering the greatest collection of sea shanties for the world to enjoy - There are songs that have been to sung to a job of work at sea for many, many years and collecting them has been a great endeavour. - Roger Chartier has made the effort out of his own interest and the requests that he has gotten to do this work from fellow musicians who wanted a good source of sea shanties to draw on and learn from. He has been told that for this effort he is a remarkable man.
