Lyr Add: Ramona (Fred Gosbee)

Subject: Lyr Add: Ramona (Fred Gosbee)
From: GUEST,Rick Pollay
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 03:42 PM

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
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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
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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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