HIGH AND DRY
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1973


With ladylike devotion, she sails the bitter ocean
If it wasn't for lovesick sailors there'd be nothing left but flotsam
Singing why me oh my, is there a better man than I
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lying high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die.

Her sails blow like bubbles, while you sip your daily doubles
If she wasn't so fond of the weather she might give the deckhands trouble
Singing why me oh my, is there a better man than I
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lying high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die .

One day when I grew older, I found I could not hold her
She took on a fine young skipper who soon run her up on a boulder
Singing why me oh my, is there a better man than I
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lying high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die.

(bridge)

Now the pleasures of the harbour, don't include a lady barber
If it wasn't for Long John Silver all of us pirates would've been martyrs
Singing why me oh my, is there a better man than I
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lying high and dry
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lying high and dry..
I hope you find your way back home before you die.



(Transcribed by David Story - February 2013)