Can you see who it might be?
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Tell old man to ring the bell
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Climb the steps up from the sea
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Strange and dark and very tall
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Can you see who it might be?
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Visitors - they are so few
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Head so proud but curls so free
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Looks like someone I once knew
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David - of the Viking heart
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Glitter of the sea
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It couldn't
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It wouldn't
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It daren't be
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The men they see him up the coast
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At the drinking house of Morley Arms
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Hails the sea with every toast
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and he hails the ladies with his charms
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All the ladies he does love
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Each day I saw his bosom swell
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He's not like me - I love but one
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And I love that one and I know him well
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Ah - but all the love
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In the world was not enough
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So I couldn't
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I wouldn't
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I daren't say no
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David - how you made me feel
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Every crack in every wall
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Climb above the traps of man
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Shout above the sirens call
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But now the siren's all you hear
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Shamed and dizzy you can't stop
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All the things we used to fear
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Are you spinning - little top?
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The strangeness of it all
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Is you know yourself so well
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But you couldn't
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You wouldn't
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You daren't say no
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Signs of you - they disappeared
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Poems and candles - I don't need
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Flowers that you brought to me
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Fell into a book I never read
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I cut my hair off like a man
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Too much trouble and what's more
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It was tarnished by your hand
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Gone my hair...into a drawer
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I said - should you leave?
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and you - you just agreed
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so we couldn't
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we wouldn't
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we daren't say no
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now I have been a woman true
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taking all that life does send
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I thought I could love just you
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but the heart does sway and the body does bend
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tales of you sometimes they come
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I smile and nod quite naturally
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my thoughts so rarely to you run
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I watch the glitter of the sea
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*****
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can you see who it might be?
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tell old man to ring the bell
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climb the steps up from the sea
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I cannot see - I know him well
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David of the Viking heart
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glitter of the sea
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it couldn't
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it wouldn't
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it daren't be
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Viking Heart
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Jane Siberry |