Evening's Curtain Lyrics - Singles - Mark Erelli

It's written of in papers, books and magazines 

For centuries adventurers set sail 

In schooners, clippers, sloops and brigs and barquentines 

O'er the deep blue ocean to prevail 

Believing their dominion o'er the great salt sea 

They'd snare the fish and smite the mighty whale 

But for every man who lived to boast his victory 

A score or more were thwarted by the gale 

CHORUS: 

As evenings curtain falls upon me like a shroud 

I'm thinking of their cold eternal sleep 

Beneath the waves far too many souls to count 

Lost out in the darkness on the deep 

There always will be men who sail the ocean blue 

But the romance is a thing of history 

In these hard times a man just does what he has to 

Providing for his wife and family