Raise My Anchor (Fare Thee Well) Lyrics

Never been a sailor but I've never settled down

Always for a moment, always for a laugh

I've been too long here, and I'm getting bored and weak

And my true love couldn't find peace with me

I've seen the open seas

Many've sailed before me

And I look down at my feet

Nothing's holding me still

So I shall raise my anchor and leave

Hope that my sails catch some strong winds

Haul away, me boys, for we don't belong here

Say fare thee well, me boys, for we are called by the seas

It's been ten years since I left my own country

And I've seen many faces in many places

Some of them I still hold near

But it was never my intention

It was not part of the plan

To try to build a home

Fall in love and break it off

I've become a dichotomy of sorts

So I shall raise my anchor and leave

Hope that my sails catch some strong winds

Haul away, me boys, for we don't belong here

Say fare thee well, me boys, for we are called by the seas

A girl once believed that she could marry me

And that by the shore our life could be

But when I felt the breeze I took my pay and set to leave

And she said I would never see her with the eyes that I see thee

Because you

My captain could be

We'd never put our anchor down

Through lowlands and the dreich

Oh my true love

It's not to be

So haul away and fare thee well

May one day we meet again

For I shall raise my anchor and leave

Hope that my sails catch some strong winds

Haul away, me boys, for we don't belong here

Say fare thee well, me boys, for we are called by the seas

And we shall raise our anchor and leave

(Raise our anchor and leave)

Hope that our sails catch some strong winds

(Catch some strong winds)

Haul away, me boys, for we don't belong here

Say fare thee well, me boys, for we are called by the seas

For I shall raise my anchor and leave

Hope that my sails catch some strong winds

Haul away, me boys, for we don't belong here

Say fare thee well, me boys, for we are called by the seas