Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out

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Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out

01 Feb 00 - 11:06 PM (#172028)
Subject: The Waves Roll Out
From: GUEST,Jim

Looking for lyrics of this song on lost "Honey Wind Blows" album of Brothers Four. It's a Gibson/Silverstein piece.

03 Feb 00 - 07:44 PM (#173160)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: GUEST,Jim

Still hoping.

04 Feb 00 - 02:23 AM (#173359)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: Barry T

Wow! That one goes back a decade or three! I can't believe it, but I still remember the first verse. Not much help, but it's a start...

Oh, come along boys
I'll sing you a song
About the days when the fish were thick
And I was young and strong
We set sail one morning
In the face of a howling wind
And the waves roll out
And the waves roll in
And the waves roll out
And the waves roll in.

04 Feb 00 - 02:37 AM (#173361)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: Rick Fielding

I've got it on an old Bob Gibson album, but I can't find the damn thing! Sorry.

Rick

05 Feb 00 - 11:43 PM (#174175)
Subject: ADD: The Waves Roll Out ^^
From: raredance

THE WAVES ROLL OUT
(Bob Gibson/Shel Silverstein)

Come along boys, I'll sing you a song;
Of the days when the fish were thick and I was young and strong.
We set sail in the morning,
In the teeth of a howling wind
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

Then late that night, there rose a gale
And it snapped the mast like a stick of wood and it ripped the sail
You should've seen the compass whirl
As the ship began to spin.
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

Then the sea turned red and the sky went white
And I heard a weird and wailing cry tear through the night
And the sea opened up like a gaping mouth
And pulled us screaming in.
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

And there I saw on the ocean floor
The sailors drowned and dead for thirty years or more
Their boney skinless toothless jaws
In a ghostly ghastly grin
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

And every eye turned toward the shore
And every leg was chained there to the ocean floor
And each cried out for the ones on land
They'd never see again
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

Their ghostly eyes burned through the sea
And each one screamed and reached a boney hand for me.
Crying, "This is the grave of the sailors damned
To pay for a life of sin."
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

The morning found me by the shore
And none believed I was the man who sailed the day before
My hair was white, my eyes were old
And I was bent and thin
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

So bully boys, you've heard my song
About the days when the fish were thick and I was young ans strong
I've told of a curse that waits for you
If you hold to your life of sin
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in
And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in

rich r
^^

06 Feb 00 - 12:56 AM (#174194)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: Barry T

Super, Rich! Ever since I saw this request I couldn't get the song out of my head. Now it's back in my tunebook, thanks to you!

06 Feb 00 - 01:05 AM (#174195)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: raredance

I should add that the lyrics were transcribed from the Brothers Four recording on "Honey Wind Blows"

rich r

06 Feb 00 - 01:23 AM (#174205)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: raredance

One last bit of information. The Bob Gibson web site shows that "The Waves Roll Out" is on his album titled "Where I'm Bound" and also indicates that the song was one of his many collaborations with Shel Silverstein.

rich r

14 Feb 00 - 05:54 PM (#178303)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: GUEST,jim

I finally got the chance to say thanks, so... Thanks, very much.

14 Feb 00 - 08:23 PM (#178373)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: raredance

I hadn't noticed before, but it is pretty nifty the way Joe can take the songwriter information from three posts after the lyrics and stick them right in under the title like they were always there. Makes me look so knowledgable and kinformed. Who says you can't rewrite history?

rich r

14 Feb 00 - 08:23 PM (#178374)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: raredance

I hadn't noticed before, but it is pretty nifty the way Joe can take the songwriter information from three posts after the lyrics and stick them right in under the title like they were always there. Makes me look so knowledgable and informed. Who says you can't rewrite history?

rich r

I smell a double post coming

15 Feb 00 - 02:50 AM (#178576)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waves Roll Out
From: Joe Offer

Ya, and just fer that, I'll LEAVE the double post....