Oh Sailor, My Sailor

from LIFE as LOVE as ART by Wailing Whales

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Oh my sailor, where did you go?
Oh my sailor, I don’t know.
Oh my sailor, where did you go?
Oh my sailor, I loved you so.

I was just a little girl, foolish and young.
We met at the beach, under the autumn sun.
He had been drinking and I had been wronged,
He said
“We’re all boats sinking.”
And he sang this song:
“Oh my lover, where did you go?
Oh my lover, I don’t know.
Oh my lover, where did you go?
Oh my lover, I loved you so.”

Lying in bed as he watched me dress, pulling clothes over my head
He confessed:
“Lover, my lover. Soon I must go, they call me away though I said no.”
With great hesitance he got up to leave, saying:
“Dear I’ll return.”
And that, I believe.

And now I’m alone, a girl so young
As the ships sailed out, my spirit was hung
Only one night we had, but to him goes my heart
I pray he’ll return, and we never apart

Sailor, sailor.
Where did you go?
Sailor, my sailor.
I don’t know.
Oh sailor, sailor,
Where did you go
Sailor, my sailor
I love you so.

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from LIFE as LOVE as ART, released May 5, 2015

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