Played on my Dulcimer,a song of love and sorrow: The ocean tossed us fore and aft, and it threw us pearls in shells ,but unbeknown to me..... you were a storm far out at sea
Story behind the song
Played on my Dulcimer , a song of love and sorrow
Lyrics
Storm © Sue Bargh 2012
Safe within your sturdy hold
`Neath sixty silver sails
We cast off thoughts of solitude
And we foolishly regaled
Then our vessel strayed from course
Now we`ll never find true North
We are lost at sea and I hear
The sirens calling you forth
We are lost at sea and I hear
The sirens calling you forth
We took our turn on every watch
Rang a thousand hourly bells
The ocean tossed us fore and aft
And it threw us pearls in shells
But unbeknown to me
You were a storm far out at sea
And I had no contemplation
That you would abandon me
And I had no contemplation
That you would abandon me
Now I stand beside the Mersey shore
Thought I heard you in the foam
And the thought of sailing solo
Well it chills me to my bones
For your energy I grieve
But you are nothing now to me
Just the distant ebbing crying
Of a free bird out at sea
Just the distant ebbing crying
Of a free bird out at sea
Great tune and tale.