The Voyage of the Queen Marie Lyrics

We set out on the Queen Marie

Full of rum and gold

To do what we'd been told

Bring back pieces of the sun

And with the main sail set on high

The wind blew from the starboard side

We mumbled forth on waters mild

And sailed into the sun

After fifteen months at sea

There was just the cook and me

Counting out the gold

And drinking all the rum

After nineteen months at sea

There was just the ship and me

Counting out my gold

And dreaming of the sun

"Oh have courage!" I did shout

Pointing to the land

In the afternoon

An island made of sun

And with a casket laid with gold

To the shallow shores I rowed

As people gathered in the glow

Shining like the sun

And there they held me to the sky

Carried like the cross of Christ

Burning gold upon my eyes

And raised me to the sun

And as the furnace closed around

All the drowning and the drowned

There the Queen Marie went down

In pieces of the sun

A million souls lit up the night

Golden fireflies in flight

Drifting up and out of sight

And swallowed by the sun

A million years fell by as one

As every father to his son

Gave his heart and returned home

To the caverns of the sun