Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Parting Song, artist -Date of issue: 06.02.2020
Song language: English
Parting Song |
| Hesperus heavenly sodality’s parting |
| And the dead men lies shattered on the floor |
| Drunken Silenus, sleeps in the corner |
| Where he left you when he swept you with the oar |
| The ghost of John Dryden is leaning on the woodworks |
| He knows all the words but to no gain |
| Solemnly mumbles,'tis be too short a blessing |
| And love, love be too long a pain |
| And I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you when that sunbeam hits the stream |
| I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you, cause this ain’t no time to dream |
| There in the dead of night a scooner is departing |
| She has turned her back on all the world |
| She’s tied down and tired, starving and beaten |
| But out there every sail shall be unfurled |
| One day I will take off my St Brennan |
| Untie him and I sink him in the sea |
| But now I must rise and I must travel |
| A homestead is not for you and me |
| And I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you when that sunbeam hits the stream |
| I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you, cause this ain’t no time to dream |
| And down in Jericho, oh my sweet darling |
| A man fell down among the thieves |
| I’ll bring him oil and wine, and thirteen stories |
| Soon, Hostis Humani Generis he will be |
| Indeed have I done all the things they have told you |
| Now a prison hulk lies anchored in the bay |
| I shall be dragged back in chains to Old England |
| Where I’ll three times meet the tide at Wapping Quay |
| And I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you when that sunbeam hits the stream |
| I will leave you, I will leave you |
| I will leave you, cause this ain’t no time to dream |