Lyr Req: No More For Me...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No More For Me...
From: Gervase
Date: 15 May 00 - 04:14 AM

Found, thanks to Barbara, in another thread... http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=48366 As sung, and possibly ammended by Tom Lewis. BORNEO (song for Vic) Ken Cockrell Chorus: Oh, not for me the sun brings the morning-o No not for me of patient mind No more for me long hauls down to Borneo For I am old and I am blind

Yet in my mind the vision still is clear Of crows nest days so long ago With both eyes peeled for dangers far and near I hear again the cry: "Sail ho."

They tell me now that ships are twice as long With masts of steel and hulls of iron Just 'cause I'm blind you can't fool me, my lads For they would sink beneath the brine

Now as I sit on foggy ev-en-ings A plaintive siren taunts my ear And minds me when I was sailor lad For that's the sound by which I'd steer

And from my bed November mornings I'd feel the tremble, hear the roar And pray for those in peril on the sea And all my shipmates, gone before.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No More For Me...
From: paddymac
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 07:43 PM

Fair play to ye lad. All things in moderation.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No More For Me...
From: Gervase
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 07:34 PM

No, it's what the black stuff does to yer that the song's all about - a awful warning!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No More For Me...
From: paddymac
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 07:26 PM

Thank god it's a song yer after. I was afraid you might have been talking about the black stuff. :>)

Subject: No More For Me...
From: GUEST,Gervase
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 07:12 PM

Can anyone help with the lyrics to a tear-jerking forebitter which has as part of the chorus: 'No more for me will the sun bring in the morning-o...'?