This is an edited DTStudy thread, and all messages posted here are subject to editing and deletion. This thread is intended to serve as a forum for corrections and annotations for the Digital Tradition song named in the title of this thread.
Here are the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition for this song. Any corrections? Any source or background information? THE SAILOR'S PRAYER (Rod MacDonald)
Though my sails be torn and ragged and my mast be turned about Though the night wind chill me to my very soul Though the salt spray sting my eye and the stars no sight provide Give me just enough morning light to hold
I will not lie me down, this rain a-raging I will not lie me down in such a storm And if this night be unblessed, I shall not take my rest Until we reach another shore
If the only water's salt and I cannot quench my thirst I will drink the rain that falls so steady down If night's blindness be my gift, if there be thieves upon my drift I will praise the dark that shelters me from them
If my friends be drained and weary and it seems their hopes are lost There's no need for their bones on this blackened bottom And if death wait just off the bow, we need not answer to him now We'll stand on and face the morning light without him
Rod MacDonald is a New York songwriter, and this is a hell of a song.
@sailor filename[ SAILPRA2 JN Don't confuse this song with the Tom Lewis Song with the same title: Oh Lord above, send down a dove, With beak as sharp as razors To cut the throat of them there blokes Who sells bad beer to sailors
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