Sailor's+daughter

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She was a fisherman's daughter/orphan? Raised up upon the water Yet every day her Johnny sailed she stood staring from her door Death is just one angry wave away one slip on stinking floors And she'd lost count of all the widows/Now she was just another widow scrubbing fish out of their/her pores

In the gentle autumn sunshine there's no more lonely place to be Than on the shoreline being torn by jagged wild gulls' cries The kids run on the empty beach, they're full of ghostly joy She sees him in each wild leap and the laughter in their eyes

Chorus Am C G C Am C D Am C G C Am C D And down here in the cold south west where the rivers meets the sea Where the winds rage in to flay the Norfolk pines She walks along the growling shore wrapped round with misery And screams her curse into the heartless sky

At night she pulls the curtains shut to hold the dark at bay The dancing trees throw shadows that clutch her in her dreams They lurch about like swaying masts on ships in coffin waves The gales in the night are cruel forlorn insistent screams

And down there in the cold south west where the river meets the sea Where the winds rage in to flay the Norfolk pines She walks along the growling shore wrapped round with misery And screams her curse into the heartless sky