Des De Moor - My Father Said lyrics

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My father said<br />

It's the North wind<br />

That broke the dijks<br />

At Scheveningen,<br />

At Scheveningen, my boy,<br />

A wind so strong<br />

We've long lost sight<br />

Of those at sea<br />

Beyond the dijks<br />

And it's the North wind<br />

That tears through the eyes<br />

Of our Northern youth<br />

And our old and wise<br />

And calls the blue<br />

Carillon cries<br />

Home from a North<br />

That's deep in their eyes.<br />

<br />

My father said:<br />

It's the North wind<br />

That stirs the sand<br />

Around the town of Bruges,<br />

Around Bruges, my boy.<br />

It's the North wind<br />

That planed the land<br />

Around the towers,<br />

The towers of Bruges,<br />

That gives our girls<br />

That old calm face<br />

Like ancient towns<br />

Locked into space,<br />

Gives their brown hair<br />

The fragile grace<br />

Of Flemish lace,<br />

Of Flemish lace.<br />

<br />

My father said:<br />

It's the North wind,<br />

The wind that broke<br />

The earth at Zeebrugge,<br />

At Zeebrugge, my boy,<br />

And by that wind<br />

The earth was rent<br />

Between Zeebrugge<br />

And the cliffs of Kent<br />

And London's left<br />

Cut loose and free<br />

With the Bruges headland<br />

Taunting the sea<br />

And London's left<br />

To forever be<br />

A suburb of Bruges<br />

Lost in the sea.<br />

<br />

My father said:<br />

It's the North wind<br />

That'll bear to earth<br />

My soulless body,<br />

My passionless body, my boy.<br />

It's the North wind<br />

That'll bear to earth<br />

My soulless body<br />

Across the grey North Sea,<br />

That'll make me captain<br />

Of a ship that sails<br />

On a breeze of tears<br />

Or a school of whales.<br />

I'll captain the breeze<br />

That blows high above,<br />

That breeze of tears<br />

For those I love.