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I was a sailor
My heartache to spite
My pillow the ocean
My eyelids the night
I had weighed anchor
With company divine
For north California or south of the line

I was a sailor
Though crew had I none
The hold was my pocket
My compass the sun
But I had brought nothing
To act as my wind
And I lay on the water like a curious thing

But close comes the morning
Happy to be
I guess I won’t live to see
North California waiting for me there

I was an angel
With you as my charge
With God as my witness
I broke your heart
I whispered a promise
Under my wing
That I would be one day a sailor again

And if a word of forgiveness
Could fill up my sail
Bit by bit we might see
North California with you in my lee there

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from Fallow Fields / I Was A Sailor, released June 27, 2011
Produced by The Dead Man's Waltz and Colin McGeoch
Made by Colin McGeoch at La Chunky Towers, Glasgow

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The Dead Man's Waltz Isle Of Skye, UK

The Dead Man's Waltz are four musicians from the Isle of Skye. Their music traces a path through the dance halls of Weimar Republic Germany, Tom Waits and the Pogues to more recent acts such as Beirut. Theirs is a litany of small-town crimes and dark romances that is fascinating and irresistable. ... more

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