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Seagull, Sing Me Your High Song
shanty-folk style
[Verse 1]
Seagull seagull come sing me your high song
Call like the wind where the white waves belong
Far from the fields and the lanes that I roam
Your cry is the thread that will tug me back home
[Chorus]
And we're all right on the rolling sea
With the salt in our lungs and the gulls flying free
From café to cliff and from creek to the foam
The sound of the seagulls will carry me home
[Verse 2]
Up on the headland or down by the quay
Their echoing voices come drifting to me
A cry from the sky with a memory sewn
Of seaweed and sand and a shoreline I’ve known
[Chorus]
And we're all right on the rolling sea
With the salt in our lungs and the gulls flying free
From café to cliff and from creek to the foam
The sound of the seagulls will carry me home
[Verse 3]
They wheel over surfers and walkers below
Where the tide pulls the rhythm and time runs slow
The rock pools are gleaming the sea thrift is bright
And the gulls sing of morning and falling of night
[Chorus]
And we're all right on the rolling sea
With the salt in our lungs and the gulls flying free
From café to cliff and from creek to the foam
The sound of the seagulls will carry me home
[Bridge]
Some say they're common and loud on the wing
But to me it’s the voice of the salt and the spring
So seagull seagull wherever you roam
Sing out your high song and send me back home
[Final Chorus]
And we're all right on the rolling sea
With the salt in our lungs and the gulls flying free
From café to cliff and from creek to the foam
The sound of the seagulls will carry me home