《Around the Wild Cape Horn》歌词

歌曲： Around the Wild Cape Horn

所属专辑：Somewhere Down the Road

歌手： Ralph Mctell

时长： 05:20

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Around the Wild Cape Horn - Ralph McTell[00:00:00]

I was born a lan-boun farm boy[00:00:06]

And in New Enland raise[00:00:09]

The ripplin' of the wheat fiels[00:00:12]

Well they were my oean waves[00:00:14]

Each cry and call eah rise and fall[00:00:17]

Of the rows aross the corn[00:00:20]

We're seaulls swoopin' across the bow[00:00:23]

Of a ship I dreamed[00:00:25]

I sail around cape Horn[00:00:27]

My deck was the dusty farm yard[00:00:37]

My mast was the telegraph pole[00:00:39]

The wind blown choir in the telephone wire[00:00:42]

Was the chord heard in my soul[00:00:45]

And it seemed to have been singing[00:00:48]

Since the day that I was born[00:00:51]

Gonna take a trip on a sailing ship[00:00:54]

All the way around the wild Cape Horn[00:00:56]

Well I found that ship in Hamburg[00:01:07]

Her name was The Peking[00:01:10]

Our skipper's name was Captain Jürs[00:01:13]

And I'd never met a man like him[00:01:16]

He pulled two men out from the sea[00:01:18]

By the hair in a raging storm[00:01:21]

And he kept that grateful sailing ship[00:01:24]

All the way around the wild Cape Horn[00:01:27]

Well the cargo weighed five thousand tons[00:01:33]

The ship three thousand more[00:01:36]

An acre of sail was up aloft[00:01:39]

Some seventeen storeys tall[00:01:41]

And we had a pig and a scruffy dog[00:01:44]

And a turkey fed on corn[00:01:47]

And willing hands drive around[00:01:49]

All the way around the wild Cape Horn[00:01:53]

Well it's four hours on and it's four hours off[00:01:58]

You sleep in your wet clothes[00:02:01]

The only dry thing on this ship[00:02:04]

Is the cargo down below[00:02:07]

Eleven thousand miles we sailed[00:02:09]

Nigh on one hundred dawns[00:02:12]

Thirty-two sails on a heaving ship[00:02:17]

Pulling us around the wild Cape Horn[00:02:20]

For seventeen days we were becalmed[00:02:31]

And then Friday the thirteenth[00:02:33]

Sixty eight great ships were lost[00:02:37]

In the storm of the century[00:02:39]

But we were blue into the Atlantic[00:02:41]

On a sun-lit sparkling morn[00:02:45]

The turkey got sick so we ate him quick[00:02:49]

On the way around the wild Cape Horn[00:02:52]

We lost two boys Now on that voyage[00:03:07]

They got thrown overboard[00:03:11]

Silence from us down below[00:03:14]

No one could put in words[00:03:17]

Two empty bunks to mark the space[00:03:20]

In our young lives to mourn[00:03:23]

Towns between all life and death[00:03:28]

On the way around the wild Cape Horn[00:03:30]

Well she had us sort of hypnotised[00:03:35]

No time to catch our breath[00:03:38]

If you want to love you alive[00:03:41]

Well you have to flirt with death[00:03:44]

Sail close to the hardest wind[00:03:47]

And treat all risks with scorn[00:03:50]

A farm boy and un-yoked team[00:03:52]

Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn[00:03:55]

Mountain waves like avalanches[00:04:08]

Crashed upon the decks[00:04:11]

The screaming winds snapped ropes and spars[00:04:13]

And tried to have us wrecked[00:04:16]

But she rose and fell through the foam and the swell[00:04:18]

Her sails were ripped and torn[00:04:22]

Eight thousand tons tossed like a cork[00:04:26]

It made it around the wild Cape Horn[00:04:29]

And she had us sort of hypnotised[00:04:34]

No time to catch our breath[00:04:37]

If you want to love alive[00:04:40]

You have to flirt with death[00:04:42]

And sail close to the hardest wind[00:04:45]

And treat all risks with scorn[00:04:48]

A farm boy and un-yoked team[00:04:52]

Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn[00:04:55]

Well a farmer boy and un-yoked team[00:05:00]

Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn[00:05:04]