Can anyone help me with the lyrics for Sad February by Graeme Miles? I tried to transcribe them from listening to the Unthanks but I've still got a couple of gaps... Cold February and all is not well There's few will sleep easy this night Down at the dockside, grim silent men standing Under the pale yellow light There's scarcely a murmer and laughter there's none Of whispering there's barely a sound For their thoughts are away, out there in the bay Where it's said that the Lairdsfield is down Bleak February a cruel bitter wind Stirs up the black grimy fall (?) Out there on the sea is no place to be Far better by the fire ... ? But not for the sailor the soft easy chair He's out there ... ? But tonight there are ten who'll work never again Counted among the drowned dead Dark February a few flakes of snow Drift over our heads ... ? By the break on the side on the ... ? They wait for the first streaks of day And over the sand-dunes and over the bar See a few feet of ... ? Hold fast in the sand with ... ? Barely two miles from the shore Sad February and all is not well There's few will sleep easy this night Down at the dockside, grim silent men standing Under the pale yellow light For down there at Teesmouth The Lairdsfield is drowned And ... ? Ten men who'll not see the springtime again Nor yet see the cold winter through
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