"Captain, if it's all the same to you
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let me ready a lifeboat--"
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"Sorry, son, though your heart may be true,
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you'd best get it stoutened or I'll run it through.
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Here's a sip to wash the wicked words back down your throat.
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"I know my ship, my catch, and my men,
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and I know what you think you've seen--"
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"Captain, you may well take offense,
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but something has to be done nonetheless
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or it's off to Davy's Locker for to calm the sea.
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"Sir, it's angry, you're not listening, I saw a woman, I heard a bell.
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"Captain, the rum welling up in your eyes
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will chase neither care nor curse--"
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"Nor will abstinence, son, for my fertile mind bore this ghost
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of the true sove that I've left behind, and you'll make her haunt
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no lifeboat while I'm gone from her.
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"I hear the peal of our wedding bells
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many miles away and months from now--"
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"Captain, if you can't but do well by a phantom future, you're destined
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to dwell and weep and gnash your teeth with all the rightly drowned.
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"Sir, I'm fighting for a home on the Fiddler's Green,
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not for a woman and a bell.
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"Captain, the sea took your ship, catch, and men,
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left you, me, and this lifeboat--"
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"Sorry, son, you're dead wrong again. I'll sail on with only the love you
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condemn, having offered up your weak heart for a safe trip home."
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The Woman And The Bell
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| Punch Brothers |
