STING - Christmas at Sea lyrics
rate meAll day we fought the tides between the North <br />Head and the South, <br />All day we hauled the frozen sheets to scape the <br />storm’s wet mouth, <br />All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and <br />dread, <br />For very life and nature we tacked from head <br />to head. <br />We gave the South a wider berth, for there the <br />tide-race roared; <br />But every tack we made we brought the North <br />Head close aboard: <br />We saw the cliffs and houses and the breakers <br />running high, <br />And the coastguard in his garden, his glass <br />against his eye. <br />The frost was on the village roofs as white as <br />ocean foam; <br />The good red fi res were burning bright in every <br />’long-shore home; <br />The windows sparkled clear and the chimneys <br />volleyed out; <br />And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel <br />went about. <br />The bells upon the church were rung with a <br />mighty jovial cheer; <br />For it’s just that I should tell you how (of all days <br />in the year) <br />This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas <br />morn, <br />And the house above the coastguard’s was the <br />house where I was born. <br />And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that <br />was of me, <br />Of the shadow on the household and the son that <br />went to sea; <br />And, oh, the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind <br />of way, <br />To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed <br />Christmas Day.<br /><br />
