I Could Have Been A Sailor

I Could Have Been A Sailor - Peter Allen

I'm a happy man

I made my choice in life

I chose to settle down

I chose to take a wife

And I take pleasure in my quiet

Hearth and happy home

I never gave my heart

Its chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

And sailed the seven seas

The wind in my face all day

Can you taste the salty breeze

I could have been a lover

Watching waves before me part

But I settled for safer harbors of my heart

I'm a lucky man

I'm the envy of my peers

I never ask for favors

Oh and I never show my fears

Surrounded by too many friends

I am a one-man band

With all the trappings of a life

Lived second-hand

I could have been a sailor

Rolling through the night

My sails before the wind

Where the star's my only light

I could have been a dreamer

Yeah but dreams just fall apart

So I settled for safer harbors of my heart

And I take pleasure in my quiet

Hearth and happy home

I never gave my heart

Its chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

And sailed the seven seas

Is the wind in your face all day

And can you taste the salty breeze

I could have been a dreamer

And watch the waves before me part

But I settled for safer harbors

Oh sailor sailed the seven seas

Is the wind in your face all day

I can taste the salty breeze

Oh lover I can see the waves

Before you part

Well I settled for safer harbors

Of my heart of my heart