Lyrics:

A hundred days at sea, A retch away from misery

Rummies and rats and tarry jacks my only family (break)

The island of salvation Is still a scream a way

As the lungs of the night Blow out the light my heart

kneels Down to pray

(strait into chorus)

Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me

Now I'm a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at

sea

I'm killing and I'm drinking My blue heart to black

But I swear oh lord I'll never sin again If you bring

her back



Gypsy was a siren, Dripping with desire

Her moonless hair and skin so fair as warm as frozen

fire

She had the loyalty of a cat, behind those pale green

eyes

through her cherry lips, the devil slipped, a thousand

lies

A clan of rogues and vagabonds, occupied her head

That thieving band took her pale white hand and stole

her from my bed

And like a ghost ship in the night, She drifted out

once more

To land upon the sand of another lover's shore



Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me


Now I'm a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at

sea

I'm killing and I'm drinking My blue heart to black

But I swear oh lord I'll never sin again If you bring

her back



In my sleeping mind she sings a sad and lonely lullabye

When I wake there's just the ache it will haunt me till

I die

When those winds of vanity no longer blow her west

I pray they'll guide her home (across the foam) and put

my heart to rest

Press gang filled this Man-o-War To make the black

mouthed cannon roar

Now all my trade is ball and blade, and blood forever

more

And the sting of salt and spray, the ocean's howl and

squall

A stumbling wreck, I roam the deck, at the devil's beck

and call at the devil's beck and call



Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me

Now I'm a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at

sea

I'm killing and I'm drinking My blue heart to black

But I swear oh lord I'll never sin again If you bring

her back