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Thread #3503   Message #655561
Posted By: Willa
22-Feb-02 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: Songs about women & the sea
Subject: Lyr Add: GRACE DARLING
CapriUni and Melani:

'Twas on the Longstone lighthouse there dwelt an English maid
Pure as the air around her, of danger ne'er afraid.
One morning just at daybreak, a storm-tossed wreck she spied,
And up spake brave Grace Darling: "I'll save the crew," she cried.

CHORUS: So she pulled away on the rolling sea, over the waters blue.
"Help, help!" she could hear the cry of the shipwrecked crew.
But Grace had an English heart, and the raging storm she braved.
She pulled away o'er the rolling sea, and the crew she saved.

They to the rock were clinging, a crew of nine all told.
Between them and the lighthouse the seas like mountains rose.
Said Grace, "Come help me, father. We'll launch the boat," said she.
Her father cried, "'Tis madness to face that raging sea."
CHORUS: But she...

One murmured prayer, "heaven guard us," and then they were afloat,
Between them and destruction, the planks of that frail boat.
Then spoke the maiden's father: "Return or doomed are we."
But up spoke brave Grace Darling, "Alone I'll brave the sea."
CHORUS: So she...

They bravely rode the billows and reached the rock at length.
They saved the storm-tossed sailors, in heaven alone their strength.
Oh, tell the wide world over what English pluck can do,
And sing of brave Grace Darling who nobly saved the crew.
CHORUS: When she...