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Sealegs

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Man in the crows nest, there for days
Thinks it’s the sky not the sea that sways
Keep this old hen as long as she lays
Sail hard on the wind as long as it pays

Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
But the trade winds don’t stop blowin
Nothing you can learn on the cold cruel land
That’s really ever worth the knowin
I’ve found my sealegs
Now I can stand again
I’ve found my sealegs
Won’t see land again
I’ve found my sealegs
Till I see sand again
Blisters scurvy overboard
Where no man says his prayers

Ain’t no secret when the wound it bleeds
We all be wise to a drowned man’s needs
Down in the deep with the cold green weeds
Follow me aft to where the dog star leads

Every man aboard knows Queequeg’s curse
Ain’t no deal says you get reimbursed
Worms or the fishes tell me which one’s worse
Salt water never slake a dead man’s thirst

Lost for years on the Persian run
Grew an empire in a Bombay slum
Don’t need a map with the barrel of a gun
Sea don’t care what any man’s done

Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
But the trade winds don’t stop blowing
Nothing you can learn on the cold cruel land
That’s really ever worth the knowing

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from Sealegs, released July 1, 2012
Copyright Lawrence Davies

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Yellowbelly Nuremberg, Germany

Yellowbelly are Lawrence, Stefan, Markus, Boris and Kathi. They play guitars, violins, drums, a double bass, a banjo, a mandolin, a lap steel, an oud and other instruments, but not all at the same time. Yellowbelly play in pubs, churches, barns, internists's surgeries, fields, living rooms, stages and castles. Yellowbelly play songs about forgotten space probes, trains, cicadas and ratcatchers. ... more

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