Lyr Add: My Island (Doug Lapham)

Subject: Lyr Add: MY ISLAND (Doug Lapham)
From: Robby
Date: 31 May 01 - 02:11 PM

After leaving requests at several sites, including this Forum Click here, I was rewarded with the words to the verses in a posting to Tommy Makem's message board Click here. The following is the complete song, as recorded by Liam Clancy on his Farewell to Tarwathie LP, re-released on CD as The Dutchman:

MY ISLAND
Doug Lapham

An ocean of streets surround my island
And the waves of people was against my door
And the tides of days and nights they go so slowly
And this bothers me for I know there's so much more.

Chorus
Some have islands in the sky
Some have islands in the sea
But my island's always here
And my dream is to be free.
Sail away, boys, sail away;
Sail away, boys, sail away.

How often I have thought and tried to leave here
Take my girl and beat my feet
And take the good ship chance and take my voyage
And sail all the way across the street.

Chorus

Sometimes I think and find that conscience is
The most important thing to a man:
To know you've stayed and tried and died to live
On a crowded beach of artifical sand.

Chorus (can be repeated, as Clancy does)

Enjoy. Sorry I don't have the capability of providing the tune as well

Robby

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Island
From: Robby
Date: 31 May 01 - 02:15 PM

Oops! It's "the waves of people wash against my door" in the first verse. I hope someone can fix that for me.
Thanks,
Robby

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Island
From: Robby
Date: 31 May 01 - 02:19 PM

Double oops. My first blicky should have been to
Click here

Just forget one little number and you mess it all up. I think I better keep my hands off the keyboard.
Robby

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Island (Doug Lapham)
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 02:08 PM

Is Doug Lapham still alive?