The Life of a Sailor's Daughter

I WAS BORN A SAILOR'S DAUGHTER
MY LIFE SPENT AT WATERS EDGE
THE DAYS THE SHIPS WOULD TAKE HIM
WERE THE DAYS THAT I WOULD DREAD

IN THE EVENINGS I'D SIT ON THE BEACH
MY MOTHER NEXT TO ME
TO SEND OUR LOVE OUT TO HIM
WE'D BLOW KISSES OUT TO SEA

FROM FAR OFF LANDS HE SENT HIS LOVE
IN GIFTS OF SILK AND GOLD
BUT I LONGED TO CURL UP IN HIS LAP
AND NESSLE IN HIS HOLD

AND ON THE DAYS HIS SHIPS RETURNED
MY MOTHER AND I WERE THERE
IN EVERY SAILOR ON THE RAIL
I SAW MY DADDY THERE

HE'D HOLD MY MOTHER CLOSELY
PULL HER TIGHTLY TO HIS CHEST
WITH A WINK OUT OF HIS TEARFUL EYE
HE'D LET ME KNOW THAT I WAS NEXT

THE FIRST EMBRACE MY FAVORITE
AS HE'D LIFT ME IN THE AIR
"DADDY, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE AGAIN"
YET HE'D JUST SMILE AND STARE

BUT THIS NIGHT AS WE SIT IN THE SAND
MY FATHER SAYS TO ME
"FOR YOUR SAILOR WHO IS UNDERWAY,
JUST BLOW KISSES OUT TO SEA"