Father Neptune

[00:05.72] When my man goes to sea,
[00:08.53] he steps so high and free.
[00:11.28] I think I know as I watch him go
[00:13.65] that he has no need for me, for me.
[00:20.74] And when my man comes home
[00:23.20] and waits a while to roam,
[00:26.39] I think I see when he smiles at me
[00:28.82] that he's dreaming of the foam, the foam.
[00:35.88] I'm not a pious Christian
[00:38.25] and I do not go to mass,
[00:41.02] but I pray to Father Neptune
[00:44.01] to let him safely pass.
[00:47.72] I sing to the god with the three-pronged rod
[00:51.29] and the whiskers wild and free
[00:53.87] that I've got a man with a beard and a tan
[00:56.15] and a passion for the sea.
[00:58.84] He rides through the storm and the cold and the warm
[01:03.01] and he loves to risk his neck,
[01:06.35] and I like to know when he goes below
[01:08.70] that it's just below the deck.
[01:12.29] Oh, Neptune; Father Neptune!
[01:14.96] I tell you fair and true
[01:17.68] that if you should lose my sailor
[01:21.14] I'll sing no more to you.
[01:24.98] When he's home from sea he is half with me
[01:28.92] and he's gone when I close the door,
[01:31.75] and it's still his creed that he has no need
[01:34.36] of a wife except on shore.
[01:37.71] I know it's the boat that keeps him afloat,
[01:42.95] but I like to think it's me.
[01:46.95] And if it were not for this
[01:50.63] I would sink to the depths of the sea.
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