White Dove-Iona Leigh

[ti:White Dove] [ar:Iona Leigh] [al:Beside the Waves of Time] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]White Dove - Iona Leigh [00:19.33]My fair sister Annie did love one man true [00:24.26]He was the tallest with eyes so blue [00:28.38]Please give up your sailing for farming she said [00:32.86] [00:33.42]I fear for you when I'm lying in bed [00:37.77]So far do you sail and so much I miss thee [00:42.02] [00:42.55]So make your life here on this fine land with me [00:46.83]She opened her window each evening for him [00:51.48]This man she did love and to him she would sing [00:56.83] [00:59.61]So come all you sailors and fine fishermen [01:04.03] [01:04.61]Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in [01:08.78]When the white horses [01:10.17]Call to the storm clouds above [01:13.43]Then look to the skies [01:15.87]And follow my own white dove [01:20.77] [01:27.64]Then one day the sailors set out on the sea [01:31.46] [01:32.05]The wind and the waves were as wild as can be [01:36.53]My sisters and I we held hands so tight [01:41.21]Then later the news of that terrible night [01:47.01]For thunder and rain did come down heavily [01:51.51]Those sailors were frightened and ere they'd be [01:56.05]They held on the sides [01:58.00]And they prayed it would float [02:00.77]But that was the end of the men and their boat [02:06.67] [02:08.91]So come all you sailors and fine fishermen [02:13.28] [02:13.85]Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in [02:18.09]When the white horses [02:19.55]Call to the storm clouds above [02:22.73]Then look to the skies [02:25.11]And follow my own white dove [02:29.76] [02:36.73]My Annie did cry for one month and a day [02:40.92] [02:41.43]She sent all her visiting friends on their way [02:45.97]Until one fine morning her belly had one [02:50.42]Jack would be the name of her fine sailor's son [02:55.25]When growing up Annie told Jack every day [02:59.62]She feared for his father when he sailed away [03:04.16]She told him the story of how they first met [03:08.88]And for loving her sailor she'd never regret [03:14.63] [03:16.88]So come all you sailors and fine fishermen [03:21.38] [03:21.91]Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in [03:26.12]When the white horses [03:27.48]Call to the storm clouds above [03:30.81]Then look to the skies [03:33.08]And follow my own white dove [03:38.16] [03:40.13]Now that was the story of Annie's true love [03:44.80]She dreams that her sailor is now a white dove [03:49.32]Whenever she sees a white bird by the sea [03:53.61] [03:54.12]This song she sings in his fine memory [03:59.67]So come all you sailors and fine fishermen [04:04.49]Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in [04:08.84]When the white horses [04:10.12]Call to the storm clouds above [04:13.50]Then look to the skies [04:17.64] [04:18.16]So come all you sailors and fine fishermen [04:22.42] [04:22.96]Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in [04:27.28]When the white horses [04:28.73]Call to the storm clouds above [04:31.93]Then look to the skies [04:34.40]And follow my own white dove