《Dogtown(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Dogtown (狗镇) (LP版) - Harry Chapin

[00:00:09] Up in Massachusetts

[00:00:12] There's a little spit of land

[00:00:16] The men who make the maps

[00:00:20] Yes they call the place Cape Ann

[00:00:25] The men who do the fishing

[00:00:28] Call it Gloucester Harbor Sound

[00:00:32] But the women left behind

[00:00:36] They call the place Dogtown

[00:00:42] The men go out for whaling

[00:00:46] Past the breakers and the fogs

[00:00:50] The women stay home waiting

[00:00:54] They're protected by the dogs

[00:00:58] A tough old whaler woman

[00:01:01] Who had seen three husbands drown

[00:01:05] Polled the population

[00:01:09] And she named the place Dogtown

[00:01:14] There's all these grey faced women

[00:01:18] In their black widow's gowns

[00:01:22] Living in this graveyard granite town

[00:01:29] Yeah you soon learn there's many

[00:01:33] More than one way to drown

[00:01:36] That's while going to the dogs

[00:01:40] Here in Dogtown

[00:01:46] And she speaks

[00:01:48] My father was a merchant

[00:01:52] All in the Boston fief

[00:01:55] When my husband came

[00:01:57] And asked him for my hand

[00:02:03] But little did I know then

[00:02:07] That a Gloucester whaler's wife

[00:02:11] Marries but the sea salt

[00:02:14] And the sand

[00:02:18] He took me up to Dogtown

[00:02:22] The day I was a bride

[00:02:25] We had ten days together

[00:02:29] Before he left my side

[00:02:33] He's the first mate of a whaling ship

[00:02:36] The keeper of the log

[00:02:40] He said farewell my darling

[00:02:43] I'm going to leave you

[00:02:47] With my dog

[00:02:54] And I have seen the splintered timbers

[00:02:58] Of a hundred shattered hulls

[00:03:02] Known the silence of the granite

[00:03:05] And the screeching of the gulls

[00:03:09] I've heard that crazy widow Cather

[00:03:12] Walk the harbor as she raves

[00:03:17] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:03:39] Sitting by the fireside

[00:03:42] The embers slowly die

[00:03:47] Is it a sign of weakness

[00:03:51] When a woman wants to cry

[00:03:56] The dog is closely watching

[00:04:00] The fire glints in his eye

[00:04:06] No use to go to sleep this early

[00:04:10] No use to even try

[00:04:21] My blood beats like a woman's

[00:04:26] I've got a woman's breast and thighs

[00:04:32] But where am I to offer them

[00:04:36] To the ocean or the skies

[00:04:43] Living with this silent dog

[00:04:47] All the moments of my life

[00:04:54] He has been my only husband

[00:04:59] Am I a widow or his wife

[00:05:10] Yes it's a Dogtown and it's a fog town

[00:05:17] And there's nothing around 'cept the sea pounding granite ground

[00:05:26] And this black midnight horror of a hound

[00:05:43] I'm standing on this craggy cliff

[00:05:48] My eyes fixed on the sea

[00:05:51] Six months past when his ship was due

[00:05:55] I'm a widow to be

[00:05:59] For liking this half living with the lonely and the fog

[00:06:07] You need the bastard of the mating of a woman and a dog

[00:06:24] And I have seen the splintered timbers of a hundred shattered hulls

[00:06:31] Known the silence of the granite and the screeching of the gulls

[00:06:38] I've heard that crazy widow Cather walk the harbor as she raves

[00:06:46] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:06:53] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:07:01] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves