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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2001-03-15 01:02 AM

His good ship brought him home from war.
I thought he'd sail away no more.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.
I welcomed him with open arms.
I wooed him with my girlish charms.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.

I wanted to keep him from the sea;
To have him always near to me.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.
When that great ship left port one day,
He climbed aboard and sailed away.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.

He didn't heed my pleas to stay.
"I'll be back home in the month of May".
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.
If he falls into the salty brine
The sea will steal this boy of mine.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.

Because he never learned to swim,
That fall will be the end of him.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.
Standing on the lonely shore,
I'll be forever longing for
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.

Looking, longing, ever for,
My sailor boy, my sailor boy,
My sailor who will come no more.
My sailor boy, my sailor boy.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2001-03-15 06:21 AM

This is so 'sing-song' had a childhood's rhyme to it....and yet a certain sensuality---I like...I just can't define it--I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO PUT MY FINGER ON IT!

but truly, lovely and sort of haunting...

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2001-03-15 06:25 AM

Very well written...I love the musical overtones...good show!!

The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges.

Cerenity
Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 2637
Escondido-California

3 posted 2001-03-16 09:09 AM

Hi Joyce,

Yes one you could sing to yet sad, very well done,

Love, Cerenity

"God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist.
We have to be reminded that He exist!"

(Writer Unknown)

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

4 posted 2001-03-16 09:17 AM

JJ,
I believe his yearning for the sea, is his home. Join him, to have him.
Melton

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

5 posted 2001-03-16 10:20 AM

Thank you Dear Hearts for reading this. It popped into my head and I had to write it to get rid of it. I almost thought it was something I had heard as a child that was coming back to me. Joyce

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