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Lyr Req: Saben the Woodfitter (Gordon Bok)

10 Nov 07 - 04:28 PM (#2190675)
Subject: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: GUEST

Looking for the lyrics to this "song", poem..Anyone have???


10 Nov 07 - 04:34 PM (#2190682)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: GUEST,musicman

When Saben the Woodfitter came for the last time
west on the western ocean,
he came alone.
And he was an old man then,
and the boat was old.

And so for the last time the black boat ran,
swung to the westward night on day,
needing neither helm nor sail-trimming,
the wind behind her.

and then one day the old man looked,
and he saw the water coming onto her.
So then by the day he'd bail
and by the night he'd sleep with his hand on her keelson,
to see when the water came.


10 Nov 07 - 05:55 PM (#2190755)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Susan of DT

That's only the first part of the story. Folk Legacy always includes all the words with their recordings. so I have it somewhere...


10 Nov 07 - 07:36 PM (#2190830)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Susanne (skw)

See this thread.


11 Nov 07 - 07:04 PM (#2191574)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sabin the woodfitter Gordon Bok
From: Musicman

you're right susanne... i forgot to turn the page.... I've got Gordon's book: Time and the Flying snow' with the music/ words in it.


14 Nov 07 - 08:41 AM (#2193442)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Saben the Woodfitter (Gordon Bok)
From: GUEST

Thanks so much everyone!