“The Hapless Sailor” song

(Song: written in 2005)

The Hapless Sailor

     by Dangerous Moug DeGrew

Allegro, but still elegiac, instrumental prelude C/F/G

1

Come people won’t you listen

To a story I would tell

About a hapless sailor

Who went on a ship

To take a trip

When he was only twelve

2

He thought that he would travel

For a year or maybe two

But thirty years went by 

Before he got back to

The place he’d left

When he had begun to roam.

Chorus 

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He’d never roam

3

He often would remember

How he left the family farm

His mother in the kitchen

Father in the barn

And sister milking cows

4

And then he’d also think about

What it’d feel like getting home

How he’d walk in through 

That old screen door

And call the names

Of all the ones

He’d loved before he roamed

Chorus

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He’d never roam

5

Then one glad day

When they drew near

The harbour lights of home

A pirate came acalling

For their ship to stand

And give him room

Or he would blow

Them all to kingdom come

6

The captain he fought bravely

And the sailors they did too

But when the day was done

The hapless sailor lay

Upon the deck

With all the crew

And none were going home.

Chorus

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He said that when this trip was o’er

He’d turn around and go back home

And never more would roam

He’d never roam

Instruments