I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere And I sing this for the captain
Your father's gone a-hunting He's deep in the forest so wild And he cannot take his wife with him He cannot take his child Your father's gone a-hunting
If it be your will That I speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more I shall abide until I am spoken for If it
I went down to the place Where I knew she lay waiting Under the marble and the snow I said, Mother I'm frightened The thunder and the lightning
How many times did you call me And I knew it was late I left everybody But I never went straight I don't claim to be guilty But I do understand
Now the Captain called me to his bed He fumbled for my hand "Take these silver bars," he said "I'm giving you command." "Command of what, there's