The Fisherman's Song

By the storm torn shoreline
 A woman is standing,
 The spray strung like jewels in her hair.
 And the sea tore the rocks
 Near that desolate landing,
 As though it had known she stood there.
 ♪
 For she has come down
 To condemn that wild ocean
 For the murderous loss of her man.
 His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning,
 And it's feared she's gone down
 With all hands.
 Oh and white were the wave caps
 And wild was their parting.
 So fierce is the warring of love.
 But she prayed to the gods,
 Both of men and of sailors,
 Not to cast their cruel nets
 o'er her love.
 Now she has come down
 To condemn that wild ocean
 For the murderous loss of her man.
 His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning,
 And it's feared she's gone down
 With all hands.
 ♪
 There's a school on the hill
 Where the sons of dead fathers
 Are led toward tempests and gales.
 Where their God-given wings
 Are clipped close to their bodies,
 And their eyes are bound round
 With ship's sails.
 And she has come down
 To condemn that wild ocean
 For the murderous loss of her man.
 His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning,
 And it's feared she's gone down
 With all hands.
 What force leads a man
 To a life filled with danger
 High on seas or a mile underground?
 It's when need is his master
 And poverty's no stranger,
 And there's no other work to be found.
 But she has come down
 To condemn that wild ocean
 For the murderous loss of her man.
 His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning,
 And it's feared she's gone down
 With all hands.