The tired old trawler by paularenson [Email]
Genre: Open Collaborations
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Keywords:
sea (35), weary (6), loneliness (12)
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Description:
I finally found out that there is a specific section for collaboration, even if I at first planned to put this in folk (contemporary). That means I uploaded all my other songs to the wrong area. Anyway, this song and all others uploaded to the various sections is open for adaptation, collaboration, etc. So feel free to add harmonies, add verses, arrange, orchestrate, derivate (is that a word?), etc.I wrote this at the end of my teens. I was listening to a lot of Gordon Bok in those days, hanging around the South Sea Seaport,going to the Folklore Center at the Washington Square church and listening to sea chanteys at the Piney Woods Folk Circle meetings. All of these influences are heard in this song. Lyrics:
The tired old trawler's in the harbor gently rocking and home from the sea Children playing in the rigging Sun is sinking, there's peace in the bay But on the backstreets laden with taverns Drunken men weave a ragged course with their feet One young fellow cold and sober Winds his way though the dark dirty streets Rain is falling and by morning He knocks at a window and waits by the door A weary, worn woman comes to the doorway And in his eyes this haggard creature's a fawn He follows after to her chamber She quiets the candles that show her cracked walls One hundred shillings worth of loving And years of loneliness have small rewards But then far off there comes a clanging The captain is calling farewell to the shore Riptide is in and love is left hanging Bound to sail for too many years Hardware:
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Ican see a cellowrks fit the mood .but the song as it
is just wonderfull ...thnx for sharin !!!
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