Lyr Add: Grandad - by Bob Watson

Subject: Lyr Add: Grandad - by Bob Watson
From: GUEST,Rick Pollay
Date: 09 Jun 25 - 08:13 PM

Grandad
© Bob Watson 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-O4wn3Bpo

Down that road’s the harbour and beyond it lies the sea
And if I weren’t so old and bent then its there I’d long to be
I’ve but to hear those seabirds and feel those breezes blow
Then my fancy knows no limit to the places that I’d go
But then I hear them calling and it fills me heart with pain
Has anyone seen Grandad? He’s gone wandering off again

Now once I was a sailor. If my life I had once more
I’d take my chance with Neptune’s men just like I done before
Though I can’t walk so well now I’d take me stick, I’d go
I could make it to the harbour if I takes it nice and slow
But then I hear them calling and it fills me heart with pain
Has anyone seen Grandad? He’s gone wandering off again

I know me daughter loves me and I know the reason why
She saved me from some old folks home her patience for to try
But bloods more thick than water and I should reward her care
But I’d rather die from drowning than sat in some rocking chair
But then I hear them calling and it fills me heart with pain
Has anyone seen Grandad? He’s gone wandering off again

See that boat down by the quayside, she was my pride and joy
For fifty years me own true love and I sailed her man and boy
See her fretting at her moorings if I could but set her free
We’d find a brand new resting place together her and me
Then no more I’d hear them calling and it fills me heart with pain
Has anyone seen Grandad? He’s gone wandering off again (x2)