SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

	'TIS TRUE THAT OUR LOT IS BUT ROUGH. 'Tis true that our lot is but rough ; It's not your smooth life of the shore ; But your days are more dull than enough ; And, the life of the deck, we love more ; We give Death more chances, we own ; He may stop with salt-water, our breath, But the end of us all lies alone With Him who gives long days or death; Ships must trade ; we must sail them, we know; Tempests, men always onwards have swept; All must work with a will while below; Calm or storm, still the watch must be kept.