ฟังเพลงSailor's Grave

Sailor's Grave (水手之墓) - Glenn Yarbrough/Marilyn Child

Our barque was far

Far from the land

When the fairest

Of our gallant band

Grew deadly pale

And pined away

Like the twilight dawn

Of an autumn day

We watched him

Through long hours of pain

Our fears were great

Our hopes in vain

Death's through he give me;

Made no alarm

He smiled and died

In his messmate's arms

We had no costly winding sheet

We placed two round shot at his feet

And in his hammock

Snug and sound:

A kingly shroud like marble bound

We proudly decked his funeral vest

With a starry flag upon his breast

We gave him this

As a badge so brave

And then he was fit for a sailor's grave

Our voices broke

Our hearts turned weak

And tears were seen

On the brownest cheek

A quiver played

On the lip of pride

As we lowered him down

Our dark ship's side

A splash a plunge

And our task was o'er

And the billows rolled

As they rolled before

And many a wild prayer

Follow to the wave

And the sound him

Into a sailor's grave