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Is It A Woman Or A Ship - Thirdmate

from Ten Tinkerings by Headwind-1

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Thirdmate From The 2011 Spring Jam. Lyrics are From John Masefield's Collected Poems.

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THIRD MATE

All the sheets are clacking, all the blocks are whining,
The sails are frozen still and the wetted decks are shining;
Then reef’s in the topsails, and its coming on to blow,
And I think of the Beer girl I left long ago.

Grey were her eyes, and her hair was long and bonny,
Golden was her hair, like wild bee’s honey.
And I was but a dog, and a mad one to despise,
The gold of her hair and the grey of her eyes.

There’s the sea before me, and my home’s behind me,
And beyond there the strange lands where nobody will mind me,
No one but the girls with the paint upon their cheeks,
Who sell away their beauty to whomsoever seeks.

There’ll be drink and women there, and songs and laughter,
Peace from what is past and from all that follows after;
And a fellow will forget how a woman lies awake,
Lonely in the night watch crying for his sake.

Black it blows and bad, and it howls like slaughter,
And the ship she shudders as she takes the water.
Hissing flies the spindrift like a wind-blown smoke,
And I think of the woman and a heart I broke.

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from Ten Tinkerings, track released April 22, 2011

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