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And the sailors, they sing sad songs,
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About the sea that eats them whole.
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And the sailors they sing sad songs,
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Food for fishes shoals.

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And the wind it blows inland,
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And the death you can smell.
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Smashed on rocks and smashed on boulders,
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Smashed in living hell.

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And their loved ones wait for hours,
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Await the fate of the cruel sea
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And if loved ones don't return,
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There's no security.

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Just the work-house when they grow old,
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To lay their weary heads,
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And the sound of the sea singing
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Until they are dead.

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And the sea that bears its harvest
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It exacts a heavy toll,
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Mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles,
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With no corpses to behold.

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Sailing out into the darkness,
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Every day of the year.
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Sailing out into the darkness,
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With a prayer, and with fear

          Cm
And with fear,
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With a prayer, and with fear.
          Cm
And with fear.