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A Life On The Ocean Wave

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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.