[ti:Christmas At Sea]
[ar:Sting]
[al:If On A Winter's Night]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Christmas At Sea - Sting
[00:11.05]All day we fought
[00:12.29]The tides between the North
[00:14.72]Head and the South
[00:17.05]All day we hauled
[00:18.37]The frozen sheets to scape the
[00:20.96]Storms wet mouth
[00:23.34]All day as cold as charity
[00:26.35]In bitter pain and
[00:27.53]Dread
[00:29.32]For very life and nature
[00:32.33]We tacked from head
[00:35.31]To head
[01:05.94]We gave the South a wider berth
[01:08.87]For there the
[01:09.61]Tide race roared;
[01:11.90]But every tack we made
[01:13.28]We brought the North
[01:15.32]Head close aboard:
[01:17.73]We saw the cliffs and
[01:19.10]Houses and the breakers
[01:21.44]Running high
[01:23.81]And the coastguard in his garden
[01:26.77]His glass
[01:27.58]Against his eye
[01:42.27]The frost was on the village
[01:44.09]Roofs as white as
[01:45.99]Ocean foam;
[01:48.25]The good red fi res
[01:49.41]Were burning bright in every
[01:51.66]Long shore home;
[01:54.29]The windows sparkled
[01:55.14]Clear and the chimneys
[01:57.83]Volleyed out;
[01:59.94]And I vow we sniffed
[02:01.51]The victuals as the vessel
[02:03.89]Went about
[02:18.46]The bells upon the
[02:19.51]Church were rung with a
[02:21.83]Mighty jovial cheer;
[02:24.21]For its just that
[02:25.10]I should tell you how of all days
[02:28.31]In the year
[02:30.56]This day of our adversity
[02:33.35]Was blessed Christmas
[02:34.70]Morn
[02:36.49]And the house above the
[02:37.67]Coastguards was the
[02:39.97]House where I was born
[03:15.72]And well I knew the talk they had
[03:18.70]The talk that
[03:19.45]Was of me
[03:21.55]Of the shadow on the
[03:22.76]Household and the son that
[03:25.42]Went to sea;
[03:27.87]And oh the wicked fool I seemed
[03:30.79]In every kind
[03:31.79]Of way
[03:33.55]To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed
[03:37.33]Christmas Day