Sailor Song Lyrics - Rickie Lee Jones

Oh the ship I'm on 

Time is what I ride 

Forty winds, the captain and the tide 

Oh a sailor boy 

Stole me from my home 

And this sea of joy 

Is the only life I've known 

I could fly away 

I could fly away 

But I take the sea 

For stranger days than these 

A salty dog 

Is caught up on the reef 

And the bottom of the sea 

She kisses in relief 

She could fly away 

She could fly away 

But she takes the sea 

For stranger days than these 

You trade your life 

When something comes for you 

And you bury the knife 

Between the lies and truth 

You could fly away 

You could fly away 

But you take the sea 

For stranger days than these 

And I take the sea 

For stranger days than these 

Stranger days...