Thunder Across The Reef-John Schumann

[ti:Thunder Across The Reef] [ar:John Schumann] [al:Portrait - The Very Best Of John Schumann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [00:03.27]Lines on a chart etched in blue [00:06.44]Stern to the wind run with the sea [00:09.47]There's thunder across the reef [00:11.43] [00:17.46]Out off the coast of Semaphore [00:19.94]There's not a seagull in sight [00:22.07] [00:22.79]Black clouds tower in the wind [00:25.04]And the rain and it looks like a dirty night [00:28.07] [00:29.02]The Star of Greece [00:30.33]She got her harbour clearance [00:32.05]With a load of grain for home [00:34.14] [00:35.19]The wind is tugging at the rigging [00:37.39] [00:38.06]There's a low and a broken moan [00:40.30] [00:41.61]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [00:44.28]Lines on a chart etched in blue [00:46.90] [00:47.51]Stern to the wind run with the sea [00:50.44]There's thunder across the reef [00:52.44] [00:57.79]A run of ragged cliffs from [00:59.52]Kingston to the Fleurieu [01:01.37]Working the wind north-west [01:02.80] [01:03.38]There was almost an inch of rain [01:06.03]That night green rolling over the deck [01:08.83] [01:10.51]17 hands on the Star of Greece [01:12.90]In the cold and the dark and the rain [01:14.97] [01:16.19]And all but six or seven of [01:18.58]Them won't make land again [01:21.28] [01:22.70]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [01:25.02] [01:25.55]Lines on a chart etched in blue [01:27.95] [01:28.65]Stern to the wind run with the sea [01:31.10] [01:31.68]There's thunder across the reef [01:34.57] [01:39.57]Twenty miles off course that night [01:42.13]Driven too close to the beach [01:44.10] [01:44.97]Home is the sailor home from the sea [01:47.73] [01:48.36]There's thunder across the reef [01:50.12] [02:14.44]Evening falls and a soft breeze [02:16.62]Brushes Port Willunga bay [02:19.03] [02:19.79]And the rising moon is a silver [02:22.49]Disc sliding up through the haze [02:25.05] [02:26.05]You can hear those sailors [02:28.42]In the mizzen screaming above the wind [02:31.18] [02:32.04]Just outside the holding ground [02:35.26]On the dark side of the green [02:37.34] [02:38.69]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [02:41.04] [02:41.61]Lines on a chart etched in blue [02:44.02] [02:44.65]Stern to the wind run with the sea [02:47.12] [02:47.68]There's thunder across the reef [02:49.53] [02:50.90]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [02:53.46]Lines on a chart etched in blue [02:56.57]Stern to the wind run with the sea [02:59.32] [02:59.89]There's thunder across the reef [03:01.70] [03:07.59]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [03:09.88] [03:10.40]Lines on a chart etched in blue [03:12.63] [03:13.37]Stern to the wind run with the sea [03:15.96] [03:16.52]There's thunder across the reef [03:18.37] [03:24.24]Sailors arrive at their cross roads too [03:26.53] [03:27.12]Lines on a chart etched in blue [03:29.58] [03:30.31]Stern to the wind run with the sea [03:32.77] [03:33.39]There's thunder across the reef [03:35.39]Thunder Across The Reef - John Schumann