I scan the ocean, a sail to see Will it come tonight, love, will it come tomorrow Or ever come, love, to comfort me (chorus "the boatman"
If I could choose the life I please Then I would be a boatman On the canals and the rivers free No hasty words are spoken My only law is the river breeze
how often haunting the highest hilltops i scan the ocean i sail tae sea wilt come tonight love wilt come tomorrow wilt ever come love to comfort me?
Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair
Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where
Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn't care if he gets hurt
I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask him Not to intervene when it came to
They're taking me down, my friend And as they hush me off to my end Will I bid you adieu? I be seeing you soon What they say around here is true Then
Boatman calls from the lake A lone loon dives upon the water I put my hand over her Down in the lime tree arbour The wind in the trees is whispering
Just like a bird that sings up the sun In a dawn so very dark Such is my faith for you Such is my faith All the world's darkness Can't swallow up a single
For you dear I was born For you I was raised up For you I've lived and for you I will die For you I am dying now You were my mad little lover In a world
Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into it's great shadowed vault I go Hail the pentecostal morn The reading is from luke 24
They're taking me down, my friend And as they usher me off to my end Will I bid you adieu? Or will I be seeing you soon? If what they say around here
With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face Comes from the west country where the birds sing bass She's got a house-big heart where we all live And plead
I remember a girl so very well The carnival drums all mad in the air Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell O where do we go now but nowhere
