Bury Me Not-Mick McAuley

[ti:Bury Me Not] [ar:Mick McAuley] [al:An Ocean's Breadth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bury Me Not - Mick McAuley [00:16.09]Bury me not in the deep deep sea [00:22.89] [00:23.83]These words came slow and faintly [00:31.25] [00:31.97]From the pallid lips of a youth who lay [00:39.06] [00:40.09]In his cabin bunk at the close of day [00:46.86] [00:48.70]Bury me not in the deep deep sea [00:55.35] [00:56.34]Where the cold dark waves will swallow me [01:03.41] [01:04.49]Where no light shall break through the darkening waves [01:11.96] [01:12.58]And no sunbeam find my silent grave [01:19.83] [01:29.17]He mourned and pined till o'er his brow [01:36.13] [01:37.01]Death's shades had slowly crept there now [01:44.66] [01:45.53]He wished his home and his loved ones nigh [01:52.77] [01:53.30]As the sailors gathered to see him die [02:00.33] [02:01.82]Oh bury me not his voice failed there [02:08.80] [02:09.73]They paid no heed to his dying prayer [02:16.47] [02:17.94]They lowered him down o'er the ships dark side [02:25.81]And above him closed the dismal tide [02:32.93] [03:06.55]He bore no costly winding sheet [03:14.70]To wrap around his head or feet [03:22.39] [03:23.01]They lowered him down where the billows roar [03:30.04] [03:30.87]In the deep deep sea far from the shore [03:37.97] [03:39.44]A girl on shore many tears will shed [03:46.60] [03:47.16]For the one who lies on the ocean bed [03:54.62] [03:55.66]Above his heart the whale will hiss [04:03.49]And his pallid lips the fish will kiss