Wave Over Wave Lyrics - Up - Great Big Sea

Oh me name's Able Rodgers, a share man am I 

On a three masted schooner from Twillingate Isle 

I've been the world over north, south, east, and west 

But the middle of nowhere wheres' I likes it best 

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Where its wave over wave, sea over bow 

I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow 

Theres no other life for a sailor like me 

And to sail the salt sea boys, sail the sea 

There's no other life but to sail the salt sea 

Well I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year 

For she built me a home and raised my children there 

She never come out to bid farewell to me 

Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea 

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The work it is hard and the hours are long 

But my spirit is willing, my back it is strong 

And when the works over the whisky will pour 

We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore 

I've sailed the world over for decades or more 

And oft times I wonder what I do it for 

I dont know the answer its pleasure and pain 

But with life to live over I'd do it again 

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