Sailor's Grave-Glenn Yarbrough/The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale

[ti:Sailor's Grave] [ar:Glenn Yarbrough] [al:Acoustic Folk Generation Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sailor's Grave (水手之墓) - Glenn Yarbrough/The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale [00:06.53]Our barque was far [00:08.09]Far from the land [00:09.75]When the fairest [00:11.12]Of our gallant band [00:13.46]Grew deadly pale [00:14.96]And pined away [00:16.79]Like the twilight dawn [00:18.57]Of an autumn day [00:21.41] [00:27.40]We watched him [00:28.45]Through long hours of pain [00:30.69]Our fears were great [00:32.40]Our hopes in vain [00:34.09]Death's through he give me; [00:36.20]Made no alarm [00:37.62]He smiled and died [00:39.15]In his messmate's arms [00:43.25] [00:48.14]We had no costly winding sheet [00:51.34]We placed two round shot at his feet [00:54.63]And in his hammock [00:56.56]Snug and sound: [00:57.80]A kingly shroud like marble bound [01:03.85] [01:08.60]We proudly decked his funeral vest [01:11.70]With a starry flag upon his breast [01:15.22]We gave him this [01:16.69]As a badge so brave [01:18.52]And then he was fit for a sailor's grave [01:23.92] [01:29.16]Our voices broke [01:30.49]Our hearts turned weak [01:32.16]And tears were seen [01:33.87]On the brownest cheek [01:35.88]A quiver played [01:37.32]On the lip of pride [01:38.92]As we lowered him down [01:40.72]Our dark ship's side [01:44.53] [01:49.68]A splash a plunge [01:51.08]And our task was o'er [01:52.88]And the billows rolled [01:54.40]As they rolled before [01:56.38]And many a wild prayer [01:58.31]Follow to the wave [01:59.62]And the sound him [02:00.93]Into a sailor's grave