Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

The Sea, The Sea, The Open Sea - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
The Sea, the Sea, the Open Sea. 
The sea, the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever free; Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide region round; It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies. Or like a cradled creature lies. I'm on the sea, I'm on the sea, I am where I would ever be, With the blue above, and the blue below, And silence wheresoe'er I go; If a storm should come and awake the deep, What matter? I shall ride and sleep. 
I love, oh, how I love to ride, On the tierce foaming, bursting tide; When every mad wave drowns the moon, Or whistles aloud his tempest tune, And tells how goeth the world below, And why the South-West blast doth blow. I never was on the tame dull shore, But I loved the great sea more and more, And backwards flew to her billowy breast, Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest; And a mother she was and is to me. For I was born on the open sea. 
The waves were white-and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born; The whale it whistled, the porpoise roll'd, And the dolphins bared their backs of gold. And never was heard such an outcry wild, As welcomed to life the ocean child. I have lived since then in calm and strife, Full fifty Summers a rover's life, With wealth to spend, and power to range, But never have sought or sighed for change; And death whenever he comes to me, Shall come on the wide unbounded sea.