Lyr Add: Crabbing on Christmas Eve

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Christmas Eve crabbing song
From: Gypsy
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 09:41 PM

Well done, mg. I too live in a town with a commercial fleet.........fortunately, our water has been calm lately.

Subject: Lyr Add: CRABBING ON CHRISTMAS EVE
From: mg
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 09:33 PM

Here is my song for the people who have to go out crabbing on Christmas eve..often stormy weather, they go to close to shore etc. And for the people who wait for them to come home..

Based on storm a few years ago and the daughter-in-law of a crab fisherman..not sure if her husband does or not. I lived on Klipsan Beach at the time and counted the lights..and could barely stand up in the wind...

Good news good news good news he said they've settled on a price
But to have him home this Christmas Eve it would have been so nice
A storm is brewing off the coast a warning dark and dim
And he the man I love the most thinks it does not mean for him

I light a candle all aglow it flickers in my hand
The wind will blow it out I know I stick it in the sand
Waves roll over waves roll under waves can flip the boat
I know he's good and yet I wonder how he stays afloat

I stand alone on Klipsan Beach the boats are in a line
Their lights seem close within my reach I think I counted nine
Nine went to the crabbing site to bounce upon the foam
Nine went out this stormy night nine better make it home.


mg

Subject: Lyr Add: Crabbing on Christmas Eve
From: mg
Date: 25 Dec 02 - 01:40 AM

CRABBING ON CHRISTMAS EVE

Good news he said I do believe
They've settled on a price
But to have him home this Christmas Eve
It would have been so nice

A storm is brewing off the coast
A warning dark and dim
And this the man I love the most
Thinks it doesn't mean for him

I light a candle all aglow
And stick it in the sand
The wind will blow it out I know
It flickers in my hand

I stand alone at Klipsin Beach
The ships are in a line
Their lights seem close within my reach
I think I counted nine

Nine went to the crabbing site
To bounce upon the foam
Nine went out this stormy night
Nine better had come home