Tonalità: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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My name is Isaac Lewis, I'm an
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able- bodied man
On the ship the Royal Charter,
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bound off for Van Diemen's Land
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Oh, the sea that took six months to cross,
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we could do in two
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So it's up that Mersey River,
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out of Liverpool we flew
Verse 2
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And some of us were sailors, all hardy,
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young and old
And some of us were pioneers,
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bound off for the gold
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There were merchants and musicians,
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Christian soldiers of the cross
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We stared into that foamy sea,
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saw our dreams there in the broth
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Sail on, sail on and
Verse 3
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on and on
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Bm
My name is Isaac Lewis,
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this shall be my song
Verse 4
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So we landed there in Botany Bay,
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and the boys went on the town
And I met a girl named Emma Gray, I
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loved her up and down
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And I swore that I'd return for her,
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one more tour at sea
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But I had to tell my father
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what he meant to me
Verse 5
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For every night, I dreamed a dream, as
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the wind swept through the sails
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That I was in my father's house,
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back in northern Wales
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And I reached out for my father,
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I said, "I love you very much,"
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Bm
But the ship rolled o'er and the dream was
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drowned before we got to touch
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Sail on, sail
Verse 6
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on and on and on
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Bm
My name is Isaac Lewis,
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D
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this shall be my song
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So I kissed the lips
Verse 7
of Emma
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C
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Gray and set sail for Liverpool
And the parrots perched in the riggings,
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boys and the dolphins swam in schools
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Our trip, it was a pleasant one, till
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we reached the coast of Wales
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And one day out from Liverpool,
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god unleashed a gale
Verse 8
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Good lord, I've seen some squalls,
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me boys and hurricanes at sea
And many nights I'd rediscovered,
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faith on bended knee
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But I never seen it blow so hard,
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we anchored her at last
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But the waves rolled o'er the top of us,
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we had to cut the mast
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And all the mining magnates
Verse 9
clutched their gold,
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believing they'd be saved
But their bloody greed destroyed them first,
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beneath the angry waves
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All the women and the children,
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lost to eternity
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Ah, man has tamed and shaped the
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land, he'll never tame the sea
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And every night I had dreamed a dream, as
Verse 10
C
the wind swept through the sails
Bm
That I was in my father's house,
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D
back in northern Wales
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And I reached for my father, I said,
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"I love you very much,"
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But the ship rolled o'er and the dream was
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D
drowned before we got to touch
Verse 11
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Sail on,
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hmmm, hmmm, hmmm
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Am
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hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm
Verse 12
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We were caught upon the rocks,
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just ten yards from the shore
And we saw men standing on the rocks,
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maybe three or more
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And I swear I saw my father waving
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at me through the squall
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And I screamed that I was coming home,
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that's all that I recall
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For the waves they swept me overboard with the
Verse 13
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broken mast and sails
And I drowned, where as a child I'd fished,
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on the rocks of northern Wales
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And in three days time I washed
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up on the whitened sandy shore
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One hundred yards from Moelfre and my
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father's white oak door
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Sail
Verse 14
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on, sail on and on and on
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Bm
My name is Isaac Lewis,
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this shall be my song
Verse 15
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And some will shout coincidence, or
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say this can't be true
I only say, just tell your loved ones
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what they mean to you
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For you shall sail the seas of life,
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pursuing golden schemes
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Bm
Yet, drown so closely to your home,
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the cradle of your dreams
Verse 16
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Sail on, sail on and on and on
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Bm
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My name is Isaac Lewis
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and this has been my song
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Bm
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My name is Isaac Lewis and this has
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been my song
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