ELTON JOHN - Billy Bones & The White Bird lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album rock of the westies<br><br>Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking<br>Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking<br>Jamaica seems so far and I've been thinking<br>Old billy bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside drinking<br><br>Check it out, check it out, check it out<br><br>And when I'm dead who'll fly the white bird home<br>I'm not the ancient mariner your children know<br>And the sea's the field these old jack tars have sown<br>`cause billy bones just wants to know who'll fly the white bird home<br><br>Oh your majesty, your majesty<br>I heard the bosun cry<br>Old billy bones has washed ashore<br>Upon a foreign tide