《Dogtown》歌词

歌曲： Dogtown

所属专辑：The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 07:26

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Dogtown - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]

Up in massachusetts there's a little spit of land[00:00:11]

The men who make the maps[00:00:18]

Yes they call the place cape ann[00:00:22]

The men who do the fishing call it gloucester harbor sound[00:00:26]

But the women left behind they call the place dogtown[00:00:34]

The men go out for whaling[00:00:44]

Past the breakers and the fogs[00:00:48]

The women stay home waiting they're protected by the dogs[00:00:51]

A tough old whaler woman who had seen three husbands drown[00:00:59]

Polled the population and she named the place dogtown[00:01:07]

There's all these grey faced[00:01:15]

Women in their black widow's gowns[00:01:18]

Living in this grave yard granite town[00:01:24]

Yeah you soon learn there's many more than one way to drown[00:01:30]

That's while going to the dogs here in dogtown[00:01:38]

And she speaks[00:01:47]

My father was a merchant all in the boston fief[00:01:49]

When my husband came and asked him for my hand[00:01:57]

But little did I know then that a gloucester whaler's wife[00:02:04]

Marries but the sea salt and the sand[00:02:12]

He took me up to dogtown the day I was a bride[00:02:19]

We had ten days together before he left my side[00:02:27]

He's the first mate of a whaling ship[00:02:34]

The keeper of the log[00:02:38]

He said farewell my darling[00:02:41]

I'm going to leave you with my dog[00:02:45]

And I have seen the splintered[00:02:55]

Timbers of a hundred shattered hulls[00:02:58]

Known the silence of the granite[00:03:03]

And the screeching of the gulls[00:03:06]

I've heard that crazy widow[00:03:10]

Cather walk the harbor as she raves[00:03:13]

At the endless rolling whisper of the waves[00:03:18]

Sitting by the fireside the embers slowly die[00:03:40]

Is it a sign of weakness when a woman wants to cry[00:03:48]

The dog is closely watching the fire glints in his eye[00:03:58]

No use to go to sleep this early no use to even try[00:04:07]

My blood beats like a woman's[00:04:22]

I've got a woman's breast and thighs[00:04:27]

But where am I to offer them[00:04:33]

To the ocean or the skies[00:04:37]

Living with this silent dog[00:04:44]

All the moments of my life[00:04:48]

He has been my only husband[00:04:55]

Am I a widow or his wife[00:05:00]

Yes it's a dogtown and it's a fog town[00:05:11]

And there's nothing around 'cept[00:05:18]

The sea pounding granite ground[00:05:22]

And this black midnight horror of a hound[00:05:27]

I'm standing on this craggy cliff[00:05:44]

My eyes fixed on the sea[00:05:49]

Six months past when his ship was due[00:05:52]

I'm a widow to be[00:05:56]

For liking this half living[00:06:00]

With the lonely and the fog[00:06:04]

You need the bastard of the mating of a woman and a dog[00:06:08]

And I have seen the splintered[00:06:25]

Timbers of a hundred shattered hulls[00:06:27]

Known the silence of the granite[00:06:32]

And the screeching of the gulls[00:06:35]

I've heard that crazy widow[00:06:39]

Cather walk the harbor as she raves[00:06:42]

At the endless rolling whisper of the waves[00:06:47]

At the endless rolling whisper of the waves[00:06:55]

At the endless rolling whisper of the waves[00:07:03]