Rockcliffe Bay Lyrics

Lucy Spraggan Rockcliffe Bay

He said part of me,
has been lost at sea,
never to return again.
with her eyes wide open,
she was softly spoken,
she said: "babe, are you missing the breeze again?"
you look so fine, sailor,
your shoes still shine,
after years of a house that don't sway,
and his home was a ocean away.
(Chorus)
he sang, freedom was mine,
for one last time,
when I was sailing along those waves.
but now my plate don't slide,
and my rum's now wine,
and I will never be the same.
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I don't hear birds no more,
but there's swallows on my hands,
I earnt a star that wasn't plucked from above,
I have memories of friends,
who left this earth as young men,
yet my hairs as white as my hat once, was.

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I hear a blast in the background,
feel the wind whip my face,
towing a sister ship,
that didn't make it home,
colours, fade away from me as,
I awake, my wife said
"I'm sleepig next to my own"

(Chorus)