HALFWAY ROCK

Halfway down the Cape Cod Bay
There sits a rock where the Indians say
An old man lives who knows the way
Of the ocean and the sky.
And they think it's wise a coin to throw
To the Halfway Rock and the man below
That calls the goodly wind to blow
And makes the vessels fly.

cho: Halfway Rock and we're bound for the better weather.
Halfway Rock and we're bound to cross the sea.

And once there was a man who came
From Halifax, Big Jim by name
Who laughed and said, "It's all a game,"
And he sat on Halfway Rock.
He went to sea and there he drowned.
The waves did drag his body down
And tossed him up on the sandy ground
Below the Halfway Rock.

So come, all you lads, and list to me:
Don't ever venture out to sea
Without a copper penny tossed
To the man at Halfway Rock.
If there would be a stock in trade,
A penny spent is a dollar made,
A fair one, sure, if the penny's paid
To the man at Halfway Rock.

@myth
filename[ HALFROCK
WC
Feb07
mudcat.org

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