The Island: Come And See/The Landlord's Daughter/You'll Not Feel The Drowning - Medley

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There's an island hidden in the sound
 Lapping currents lay your boat to ground
 Affix your barb and bayonet
 The curlews carve their Arabesques
 And sorrow fills the silence all around
 Come and see
 There's a harbor lost within the reeds
 A jetty caught in over-hanging trees
 Among the bones of cormorants
 No boot mark here nor finger prints
 The rivers roll down to a soundless sea
 Come and see
 Come and see
 The tides will come and go
 With this bare waking eye
 Who rose like the wind
 Though we know for sure
 Amidst this fading light
 We'll not go home again
 Come and see
 Come and see
 In the lowlands, nestled in the heat
 A briar cradle rocks it's babe to sleep
 Its contents watched by Sycorax
 And patagon in paralax
 A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep
 Come and see
 Come and see
 The tides will come and go
 Witnessed by no waking eye
 Who rose like the wind
 Though we know for sure
 Amidst this fading light
 We'll not go home again
 Come and see
 Come and see
 As I was rambled
 Down by the water
 I spied in sable
 The landlord's daughter
 Produced my pistol, then my saber
 To make no whistle or thou will be murdered
 She cursed, she shivered
 She cried for mercy,
 "My GOLD and silver if thou will release me!"
 I'll take no GOLD miss, I'll take no silver
 I'll take those sweet lips, and I'll deliver
 I will dress your eyelids
 With dimes upon your eyes
 Lay you close to water
 Green your grave will rise
 Go to sleep little ugly
 Go to sleep you little fool
 Forty-winking in the belfry
 You'll not feel the drowning
 You'll not feel the drowning
 Forget you once had sweethearts
 They've forgotten you
 Think you not on parents
 They've forgotten too
 Go to sleep now little ugly
 Go to sleep now you little fool
 Forty-winking in the belfry
 You'll not feel the drowning
 You'll not feel the drowning
 Go to sleep little ugly
 Go to sleep little fool
 Forty-winking in the belfry
 You'll not feel the drowning
 You'll not feel the drowning
 Hear you now the captain
 Heed his sorrowed cry
 "Weight upon your eyelids
 As dimes laid on your eyes"
 

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Duration
12:26
Key
7
Tempo
104 BPM

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