Dogtown (LP版)-Harry Chapin

[ti:Dogtown (LP版)] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Heads & Tales] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dogtown (狗镇) (LP版) - Harry Chapin [00:09.20]Up in Massachusetts [00:11.28] [00:12.78]There's a little spit of land [00:14.69] [00:16.97]The men who make the maps [00:19.12] [00:20.85]Yes they call the place Cape Ann [00:23.49] [00:25.08]The men who do the fishing [00:27.03] [00:28.83]Call it Gloucester Harbor Sound [00:31.09] [00:32.96]But the women left behind [00:35.16] [00:36.92]They call the place Dogtown [00:39.44] [00:42.99]The men go out for whaling [00:45.14] [00:46.57]Past the breakers and the fogs [00:49.06] [00:50.55]The women stay home waiting [00:52.69] [00:54.04]They're protected by the dogs [00:56.81] [00:58.13]A tough old whaler woman [01:00.17] [01:01.48]Who had seen three husbands drown [01:04.09] [01:05.91]Polled the population [01:07.72] [01:09.32]And she named the place Dogtown [01:11.66] [01:14.32]There's all these grey faced women [01:17.42] [01:18.23]In their black widow's gowns [01:20.87] [01:22.76]Living in this graveyard granite town [01:26.91] [01:29.30]Yeah you soon learn there's many [01:32.53] [01:33.09]More than one way to drown [01:35.82] [01:36.83]That's while going to the dogs [01:39.68] [01:40.92]Here in Dogtown [01:41.68] [01:46.01]And she speaks [01:46.58] [01:48.79]My father was a merchant [01:50.71] [01:52.01]All in the Boston fief [01:54.23] [01:55.70]When my husband came [01:57.94]And asked him for my hand [02:00.00] [02:03.57]But little did I know then [02:06.36] [02:07.03]That a Gloucester whaler's wife [02:09.17] [02:11.22]Marries but the sea salt [02:13.29] [02:14.58]And the sand [02:15.41] [02:18.60]He took me up to Dogtown [02:20.63] [02:22.26]The day I was a bride [02:24.10] [02:25.87]We had ten days together [02:28.01] [02:29.53]Before he left my side [02:31.22] [02:33.05]He's the first mate of a whaling ship [02:35.80] [02:36.99]The keeper of the log [02:38.94] [02:40.64]He said farewell my darling [02:42.65] [02:43.92]I'm going to leave you [02:45.26] [02:47.30]With my dog [02:49.59] [02:54.54]And I have seen the splintered timbers [02:57.45] [02:58.57]Of a hundred shattered hulls [03:00.71] [03:02.02]Known the silence of the granite [03:05.27]And the screeching of the gulls [03:08.35] [03:09.16]I've heard that crazy widow Cather [03:12.27] [03:12.86]Walk the harbor as she raves [03:15.79] [03:17.33]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves [03:22.39] [03:39.73]Sitting by the fireside [03:41.23] [03:42.96]The embers slowly die [03:44.82] [03:47.82]Is it a sign of weakness [03:50.54] [03:51.80]When a woman wants to cry [03:54.55] [03:56.83]The dog is closely watching [03:58.74] [04:00.89]The fire glints in his eye [04:03.29] [04:06.02]No use to go to sleep this early [04:09.65] [04:10.29]No use to even try [04:14.18] [04:21.53]My blood beats like a woman's [04:23.96] [04:26.59]I've got a woman's breast and thighs [04:29.93] [04:32.53]But where am I to offer them [04:35.57] [04:36.79]To the ocean or the skies [04:41.37] [04:43.46]Living with this silent dog [04:46.41] [04:47.84]All the moments of my life [04:51.06] [04:54.34]He has been my only husband [04:58.00] [04:59.16]Am I a widow or his wife [05:03.57] [05:10.43]Yes it's a Dogtown and it's a fog town [05:15.16] [05:17.59]And there's nothing around 'cept the sea pounding granite ground [05:24.23] [05:26.36]And this black midnight horror of a hound [05:36.25] [05:43.83]I'm standing on this craggy cliff [05:47.28] [05:48.10]My eyes fixed on the sea [05:50.37] [05:51.97]Six months past when his ship was due [05:54.83] [05:55.72]I'm a widow to be [05:58.10] [05:59.67]For liking this half living with the lonely and the fog [06:05.97] [06:07.37]You need the bastard of the mating of a woman and a dog [06:18.90] [06:24.09]And I have seen the splintered timbers of a hundred shattered hulls [06:30.64] [06:31.54]Known the silence of the granite and the screeching of the gulls [06:38.49]I've heard that crazy widow Cather walk the harbor as she raves [06:45.45] [06:46.46]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves [06:51.46] [06:53.95]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves [06:59.27] [07:01.97]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves