Home Is The Sailor Lyrics

Bill he was a sailor come home from the sea

The last of the old timers with his tales and his memories

He'd sailed the western ocean and all the seven seas

A rover on the rolling deep not a place that he hadn't been

Now the young ones loved to listen to his stories and his tales

About the south- sea islands, the mermaids and the whales

The waste of war and the times on shore, the rites of passage won

The northern lights in the arctic night and the land of the midnight sun

Home is the sailor, he's come home from the sea

Thrown up by the ocean like a wave up to the shore

He'd watch the far horizon for hours at the harbour wall

And those who thought that they knew him, well

They never knew him at all

They say he never married no he never took a wife

The ocean was his mistress and he loved her all of his life

When the time it came to leave her as he knew it would some day

It broke his heart when they said goodbye and they went their separate ways

He tried hard to forget her but she wouldn't let him go

He heard her plain when the wind and rain from over the sea did blow

His course was set from the day they met by the stars in the northern sky

He knew they'd meet again someday, you could tell by the look in his eye

Bill he took to drinking, it helped the hours pass

Some vision of the future lay at the bottom of his whiskey glass

He swore that he saw paradise and he called it fiddlers green

Said it was the finest place that he'd ever seen

Now some men wear their troubles like a mask upon their face

And some they hide what they feel inside and lock away all trace

We knew that Bill was sinking, that life had lost its fun

It seemed his song was ended, his race was almost run

Then news came through one morning, they'd seen him in the tide

Then they lost all trace in it's cold embrace, couldn't save him if they tried

Just what he'd been thinking there's no tongue can tell

There's some that say that they saw him jump and others say he fell

Home is the sailor, he's gone back to the sea

Gone back to what he always knew would be his destiny

Far from the far horizon, far from the harbour wall

And those who thought that they knew him well

They never knew him at all

Those who thought that they knew him

They never knew him at all