Away

If rock music were 200 years old, and a sailor on a wooden ship sang about life at sea, maybe it would sound like this.

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Lyrics

Left Liverpool as a cabin boy the day that I turned ten,
Grew up on the decks of wooden ships, my mates were sailin’ men.
They taught me how to tie a knot and how to trim a sail,
How to climb the riggin’ in a howlin’ wind, and how to quaff an ale.

Away…
Where the breakers roar, the seagulls cry, and timbers moan at night.
Away…
Where the trade wind fills a schooner’s sail, and the midnight stars burn bright.

My father dreamed of sailing ships and the places they had been,
But he died when I was just a boy, the coal dust did him in.
I left my little village, there was nothin’ there for me
Now my home’s a rollin’ deck, out on a rising sea.

Away…
Where the breakers roar, the seagulls cry, and timbers moan at night.
Away…
Where the trade wind fills a schooner’s sail, and the midnight stars burn bright.

I’ve filled my hold with lumber, tobacco, silk, and corn,
Set sail from ports around the world, and raced around the Horn.
I’ve given the slip to pirate ships, cruisin’ the China Sea
And chased the clouds across the sky, ahead of a ten-knot breeze.

Away…
Where the breakers roar, the seagulls cry, and timbers moan at night.
Away…
Where the trade wind fills a schooner’s sail, and the midnight stars burn bright.