A life on the ocean wave
letra de Epes Sargent
música de Henry Russell
Where the scatter'd waters rave, and the winds their revels keep;
Like an eagle cag'd I pine,
On this dull, unchanging shore;
Oh give me the flashing brine,
The spray and the tempest's roar.
(Chorus)
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep,
The winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep,
(the winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep).
Once more on the deck I stand,
Of my own swift gliding craft,
Set sail! and farewell to the land,
The gale follows fair abaft!
We shoot thro' the sparkling foam,
Like an ocean bird set free;
Like the ocean bird, our home
We'll find far out on the sea.
(Chorus)
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep,
The winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep,
(the winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep).
The land is no longer in view,
The clouds have begun to frown;
But with a stout vessel and crew,
We'll say, let the storm come down.
And the song of our hearts shall be,
While the wind and the water rave.
A life on the heaving sea,
A home on the bounding wave.
(Chorus)
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep,
The winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep,
(the winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep).
