Lyr Req: Saben the Woodfitter (Gordon Bok)

Subject: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 04:28 PM

Looking for the lyrics to this "song", poem..Anyone have???

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: GUEST,musicman
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 04:34 PM

When Saben the Woodfitter came for the last time
west on the western ocean,
he came alone.
And he was an old man then,
and the boat was old.

And so for the last time the black boat ran,
swung to the westward night on day,
needing neither helm nor sail-trimming,
the wind behind her.

and then one day the old man looked,
and he saw the water coming onto her.
So then by the day he'd bail
and by the night he'd sleep with his hand on her keelson,
to see when the water came.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Susan of DT
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 05:55 PM

That's only the first part of the story. Folk Legacy always includes all the words with their recordings. so I have it somewhere...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 07:36 PM

See this thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Musicman
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:04 PM

you're right susanne... i forgot to turn the page.... I've got Gordon's book: Time and the Flying snow' with the music/ words in it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Saben the Woodfitter (Gordon Bok)
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 08:41 AM

Thanks so much everyone!