Great Big Sea - Safe Upon the Shore lyrics

A girl upon the shore did ask
A favour of the sea
"Return my blue eyed sailor boy
Safely back to me
Forgive me if I ask too much
I will not ask for more
But, I shall weep until he
Sleeps safe upon the shore"

As though the sea did hear her plea
A vision did appear
The drifting tip of some wrecked
Ship came floating ever near
A figure there did cling to it
Approaching more and more
As if to ride on some strange tide
Safe upon the shore

So give a sailor not your heart
Lest sorrow you do seek
Let true love not be torn apart
By favours from the sea my love
She cried as she espied the
Figure on the spar
His clean white shirt was drenched and torn
He must have floated far
She thought with bliss how she would
Kiss the lips she did adore and oh
How sweet to see his feet safe upon the shore

So give a sailor not your heart
Lest sorrow you do seek
Let true love not be torn apart
By favours from the sea

As she drew near
She felt the fear that something was astray
His mouth was slack and his blue
Eyes stared blindly at the day
And in a daze, she turned her gaze from the
Corpse the driftwood bore
And the cold cold sea pushed ruthlessly
Safe upon the shore

So give a sailor not your heart
Lest sorrow you do seek
Let true love not be torn apart
By favours from the sea

Now fishermen
They cast their nets like miners pan for gold
And sailors push off from the docks
And pray the gales will hold
The sea just sit's silently, but sometimes
She does more and someone weeps as her love
Sleeps safe upon the shore