Maureen McGovern

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I Could Have Been a Sailor

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I Could Have Been a Sailor

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I'm a happy woman

I made my choice in life

I chose to settle down

I chose to be a wife

And I take pleasure in my quiet hearth

And happy home

I never gave my heart

Its chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

And sailed the seven seas

The wind in my face all day

Can you taste the salty breeze?

I could have been a lover

Watchin' waves before me part

But I settled for safer harbors

Of my heart

I'm a lucky woman

I'm the envy of my peers

Never ask for favors

And I never show my fears

Surrounded by too many friends

I am a one-man band

With all the trappings of

A life lived second-hand

I could have been a sailor

Rollin' through the night

My sails before the wind

And the stars my only light

I could have been a dreamer

But dreams just fall apart

So, I settled for safer harbors

Of my heart

And I take pleasure in my quiet hearth

And happy home

I never gave my heart

A chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

And sailed the seven seas

The wind in my face all day

Can you taste the salty breeze?

I could have been a dreamer

But dreams just fall apart

So, I settled for safer harbors

Of my heart

I settled for safer harbors

Of my heart

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