Fred Gosbee (Maine)was inspired by a wreck of a 240 foot 5-masted schooner (Boston Whaler) that ran aground in 1929 at Five Islands, ME. Abandoned and then used as a wood source to build a cabin. RAMONA (Fred Gosbee) CHORUS Now she don't look like much lying here beside the shore And me and her won't ever see deep water anymore We're a couple of old derelicts from another time Me and my Ramona Verses: The wind in her rigging sings a song of other days Though her masts are sprung and there's slack in all her stays I close my eyes and I remember how it used to be When me and my Ramona went to sea We started hauling lumber, ended hauling coal I was twenty years her master and I loved her heart and soul So many times she saved us from the fury of the storm After all these years my memories are warm © I recall how on our last trip when we'd emptied out the hold The owners came down to me, said Ramona had been sold They sold her to a scrapper 'cause they couldn't make her pay I had to get my gear and go away I couldn't leave her there after all she'd done for me So I gathered my life-savings and I paid Ramona's fee Took her up the river (to an island) and beached her in the sand Then built this little cabin close at hand © It's been thirty years now since we come aground Still I walk her weathered deck and think I hear the sound Of a living tops'l schooner as she runs before the wind Oh, Ramona, we're still sailing in my mind ©
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