《Tall Ships》歌词

[00:00:00] Tall Ships - Show Of Hands

[00:01:58] Give us a wreck or two

[00:01:59] Good Lord

[00:02:00] Winter along this coast is hard

[00:02:02] Grey frost creeps like mortal sin

[00:02:06] No food in the larder

[00:02:07] No bread in the bin

[00:02:09] One rich wreck is all we pray

[00:02:12] Busted abroad at break of day

[00:02:14] Broken and splintered upon the reef

[00:02:17] Bread and wine to calm our grief

[00:02:20] Lord of rocks and tide and sky

[00:02:22] Heed our call

[00:02:23] Hark to our cry

[00:02:26] Bread by the bag

[00:02:27] Beef by the cask

[00:02:28] Food for poor hearts is all we ask

[00:02:39] On the skyline the tall ships sail by

[00:02:44] Bound for London

[00:02:45] Their decks piled high

[00:02:49] Fruits of warmer lands

[00:02:52] Passing through our hands

[00:02:54] So we look for the storm in the sky

[00:02:59] Farewell and adieu to you

[00:03:02] Spanish ladies

[00:03:04] Farewell and adieu

[00:03:06] You ladies of Spain

[00:03:11] We've received orders for

[00:03:13] To sail back to England

[00:03:15] We hope in a short time to see you again

[00:03:21] We'll rant and we'll roar

[00:03:23] Like true British sailors

[00:03:26] We'll rant and we'll roar

[00:03:28] All on the salt sea

[00:03:32] Until we strike soundings

[00:03:34] In the channel of old England

[00:03:37] From Ushant to Scily is thirty five leagues

[00:03:43] We hove our ship to

[00:03:45] With the wind from the west

[00:03:47] Boys

[00:03:48] Hove our ship to

[00:03:50] Deep soundings to take

[00:03:54] Thirty five fathoms

[00:03:56] And a white sandy bottom

[00:03:59] We squared our main yard

[00:04:01] And the channel did make

[00:04:05] We'll rant and we'll roar

[00:04:07] Like true British sailors

[00:04:10] We'll rant and we'll roar

[00:04:12] All on the salt sea

[00:04:16] Til we strike soundings

[00:04:18] In the channel of old England

[00:04:21] From Ushant to Scily is thirty five leagues

[00:04:27] Oh the fishermen rise with the sun

[00:04:31] And they work'til the day's nearly done

[00:04:37] Hauling empty nets

[00:04:39] While the cold sun sets

[00:04:42] And the winter is barely begun

[00:04:47] There's a lighthouse a mile from the shore

[00:04:52] That the storm-weary sailors search for

[00:04:58] When the wind and rain

[00:05:00] Bring their gales again

[00:05:03] It won't shine for them anymore

[00:05:08] On the skyline the tall ships sail by

[00:05:13] Bound for London

[00:05:14] Their decks piled high

[00:05:19] Fruits of warmer lands

[00:05:21] Passing through our hands

[00:05:24] So we look for a storm in the sky

[00:07:18] Sweet thoughts of home came to me today

[00:07:29] Far too long now I've been away

[00:07:39] I'll stay away no longer

[00:07:44] Come homeward winds

[00:07:47] Blow stronger

[00:07:53] Stronger

[00:08:03] I'm homeward bound

[00:08:13] I'm homeward bound

[00:08:24] With the first clear sight of

[00:08:26] The West Country shore

[00:08:34] We swear we won't

[00:08:36] Go to sea any more

[00:08:44] Sweethearts and wives seem dearer

[00:08:50] As the English shore draws nearer

[00:09:05] Now soon their welcome

[00:09:08] Will warm winter's heart

[00:09:16] We'll vow nothing will pull us apart

[00:09:26] There'll be a short time of plenty

[00:09:30] We'll think again when our pockets are empty

[00:09:42] Now a grey storm blackens

[00:09:44] The clear Western skies

[00:09:52] Fear and welcome join both in our eyes

[00:10:02] Full sail and a straining main mast

[00:10:06] Run with the wind

[00:10:08] We'll fly while the storm lasts

[00:10:16] While the storm last

[00:10:26] I'm homeward bound

[00:10:36] I'm homeward bound

[00:11:11] As the rain blackened clouds gather round

[00:11:16] And the roaring gales drown every sound

[00:11:22] All eyes search the night

[00:11:25] For that ray of light

[00:11:28] That warns where the black rocks are found

[00:11:50] I know this place

[00:11:59] I know this place

[00:12:09] We're running aground

[00:12:19] We're running aground

[00:12:48] We're running aground

[00:13:29] One rich wreck

[00:13:31] Or maybe two

[00:13:32] Food and stores to see us through

[00:13:35] Til Spring leaps up like break of day

[00:13:38] And fish return to the empty bay

[00:13:42] One rich wreck

[00:13:43] For thy hand is strong

[00:13:44] A brig or a merchant one from up along

[00:13:47] Caught on your twisted tides

[00:13:49] Good lord

[00:13:51] Drawn by our false lights to the shore

[00:14:23] I rose with the morning

[00:14:28] On a rain washed day

[00:14:33] Early and I walked along the shore

[00:14:43] Watching the broken splintered driftwood come in

[00:14:53] I listened to the ocean roar

[00:15:03] Town slowly waking and I walked from the sea

[00:15:08] Parents break in to their children's dreams

[00:15:13] Mothers start to call

[00:15:15] Fathers reach the stirring streets

[00:15:18] Wondering what another morning brings

[00:15:25] All they have to sell is the

[00:15:30] Strength of two strong arms

[00:15:35] All they are standing in their shoes

[00:15:45] And the price of your labour

[00:15:49] In deep winter falls and falls

[00:15:55] Point came there was nothing left to lose

[00:16:05] We pay the price of winter

[00:16:07] And we buy another year

[00:16:10] It's time to search the heart

[00:16:11] And count the cost

[00:16:15] Take the guilty conscience

[00:16:17] And the widow's bitter tears

[00:16:19] And what we gain is someone else's loss

[00:16:28] Yesterday the gales that shook the rooftop slates

[00:16:37] Today the breeze gently tugs your hair

[00:16:47] And the tide that closed it's fist

[00:16:50] And snapped a broad ship's back

[00:16:57] Now softly takes the white gulls from the air

[00:17:07] Oh the banker's purse is like a deep black well

[00:17:11] For every other well bred clown

[00:17:16] And the merchant has a fleetful of young men's lives

[00:17:21] He can risk one in twenty going down

[00:17:30] I rose with the morning on a rain washed day

[00:17:41] It was early and I walked along the shore

[00:17:52] I knelt down by the water where my brother lay

[00:18:03] I listened to the ocean roar

[00:18:15] We have families with sons on the sea

[00:18:20] They work the tall ships of the sea

[00:18:25] But our choice is made

[00:18:28] By these winter's days

[00:18:31] And the children who watch from the quay

[00:18:35] That wild evening the word flew around

[00:18:40] A tall merchant mashed into the ground

[00:18:46] How we shout and sing

[00:18:48] Glad to greet the spring

[00:18:51] Though we weep for the sailors we've drowned

[00:18:56] On the skyline the tall ships sail by

[00:19:01] Bound for London

[00:19:02] Their decks piled high

[00:19:07] Fruits of warmer lands

[00:19:09] Passing through our hands

[00:19:12] So we look for a storm in the sky

[00:19:24] November wind chills to the bone

[00:19:29] And December rain lashes the stones

[00:19:35] Sea that brings us life

[00:19:37] Take your sacrifice

[00:19:39] And give back the hope to our homes

[00:19:44] On the skyline the tall ships sail by

[00:19:49] Bound for London

[00:19:51] Their decks piled high

[00:19:55] Fruits of warmer lands

[00:19:58] Passing through our hands

[00:20:00] So we look for a storm in the sky

[00:20:45] Oh the fishermen rise with the sun

[00:20:49] And they work 'til the day's nearly done

[00:20:55] Hauling empty nets

[00:20:58] While the cold sun sets

[00:21:00] And the winter is barely begun

[00:21:05] On the skyline the tall ships sail by

[00:21:10] Bound for London

[00:21:11] Their decks piled high

[00:21:16] Fruits of warmer lands

[00:21:18] Passing through our hands

[00:21:21] So we look for a storm in the sky

[00:21:25] Oh we look for a storm in the sky

[00:21:31] Oh we look for a storm in the sky