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Thread #171246   Message #4141818
Posted By: Newport Boy
16-May-22 - 06:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Welsh Back Quay (Ian Dye)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welsh Back Quay (Ian Dye)
OK - I have it all, but for uncertainty over one word. "quay"? at the end of line 2 in verse 4. I think he pronounces it "kay" for the rhyme.

Welsh Back Quay - Ian Dye

From Welsh Back Quay I said goodbye
To sweethearts, wives and friends
And down the Marsh we sailed away
To wind through Avon's bends.

Chorus:
Don't tie me to the bollard, mate
Don't lash me to the mast.
I'm bound away for Klondike shore
This voyage will be my last.

I've sailed the oceans far and wide
I've sailed from Bristol town.
I'm bound away on a Severn tide
On a voyage the world around.

I've seen St Elmo's raging fire
And the fog on the Severn shore.
I leave behind old Redcliffe spire
And the girls I do adore.

Goodbye to you in old Hotwells
And the girls at Bristol quay.
I hear the sound of Redcliffe's bells
As we get her under way.

I've been to sea for twenty years
I've sailed to eastern shores
But now I want to stay right here
In Bristol evermore.

Phil