The Captain And The Lady

There was a captain, and there was a lady

There was a ship, of wood and of steel

And there were the years that they sailed her together

her at the lookout, and him at the wheel

For gold and a fine house to Kate they meant nothing

He was fisherman, who couldn't stay still

So they came together and they called to the shipwrights

To build them a vessel to go where they willed

Sail away, sail away, from the Capes to the North

With a cargo and crew so fine

This was the dream of their time

O sing me boys, sing me boys

We'll weigh in the anchor, and haul out the sails

Sing me boys, O sing

We'll sail on past daybreak in a good southern gale

One morning the sun rose pale yellow

The sky was a bleeding blood red

All hands on deck, now, there's a vast wind a'brewin'

That'll bring down the heavens, and wake up the dead

The storm came and struck like a hammer

And with it came fever that sent Kate below

And just like the fires that burned in the rigging

They burned in the lady who lay down below

By midnight the see it had raged and gone silent

By sunrise her shroud had been sewn

And at sunset the sea took her home

O sing me boys, sing me boys

We'll weigh in the anchor, and haul out the sails

Sing me boys, O sing

We'll sail on past daybreak in a good southern gale

And so sailed the captain alone from the lady

The crew mourned her loss, as one of their own

'Til one night a storm caught them hard upon harbor

and threatened to dash them apart on the stone

In the darkness the crew could see nothing

And the captain was helpless, he steered all alone

The sudden to starboard there stood a figure

Guiding the ship into harbor and home

And so came the lady, she came back to the captain

to chart him a course that was true

and he brought the ship safely on through

O sing me boys, sing me boys

We'll weigh in the anchor, and haul out the sails

Sing me boys, O sing

We'll sail on past daybreak in a good southern gale

And in the years after when the weather was fine

The captain dreamed softly, alone in his years

But when the sky darrkened, when the sea rose up swiftly

Between him and danger the lady appeared

And then one October, at the first touch of winter

The captain made harbor, put the crew all ashore

The ship needs a rest boys, come back in the springtime

And together we'll sail the big waters once more

Alone then he sailed from the harbor

Out past the marker, and into the wind

And into the arms of the lady who beckoned

It was there on the rocks that he found her again

Now sing me boys, sing me boys

We'll weigh in the anchor, and haul the sails up above

Sing me boys, O sing

We'll sing of the captain and the one that he loved

O sing me boys, sing me boys

We'll weigh in the anchor, and haul out the sails

Sing me boys, O sing

We'll sail on past daybreak in a good southern gale

We'll sail on past daybreak in a good southern gale

We'll sail on past daybreak...