Here stand I,
stand between my toes
Longing for the home
that I've never known
Worn down shoes and worn down clothes
and nowhere to lay down
my worn down bones
Nowhere to lay down my bones
There stands Billy, a gleam in his eye
One leg short and a glass drunk dry
He smells like seashells,
sleeps under the sky
And he'll play that tune till
the day he dies
He'll play that tune till
the day he dies
Roly -roly waters, hopefully
Play us a tune,
won't you play it for me?
I long for the sea
And nobody plays like you, like you
Nobody plays like you
It's sixteen years since we
sailed the salt seas
And time's been no friend
to you or to me
It's sixteen years since we
sailed to the sun
And Billy, what have we done,
done, done?
Billy, what have we done?
Oh, play to me that melody
Of wa ters sweet and waters deep
It rolls me waves in the rolling waves
It rolls me down to my sleep
It rolls me down to my sleep
Roll you rolling mortars
Oh Billy, play us a tune
Won't you play it for me?
I long for the sea
And nobody plays like you, like you
Nobody plays like you
Roll you rolling mortars
Oh Billy, fly as a chew,
won't you play with me?
I long for the sea
and nobody plays like you, like you
Nobody plays like you
Nobody plays like you,
like you
Nobody plays like you