《Around the Wild Cape Horn》歌词

[00:00:00] Around the Wild Cape Horn - Ralph McTell

[00:00:06] I was born a lan-boun farm boy

[00:00:09] And in New Enland raise

[00:00:12] The ripplin' of the wheat fiels

[00:00:14] Well they were my oean waves

[00:00:17] Each cry and call eah rise and fall

[00:00:20] Of the rows aross the corn

[00:00:23] We're seaulls swoopin' across the bow

[00:00:25] Of a ship I dreamed

[00:00:27] I sail around cape Horn

[00:00:37] My deck was the dusty farm yard

[00:00:39] My mast was the telegraph pole

[00:00:42] The wind blown choir in the telephone wire

[00:00:45] Was the chord heard in my soul

[00:00:48] And it seemed to have been singing

[00:00:51] Since the day that I was born

[00:00:54] Gonna take a trip on a sailing ship

[00:00:56] All the way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:01:07] Well I found that ship in Hamburg

[00:01:10] Her name was The Peking

[00:01:13] Our skipper's name was Captain Jürs

[00:01:16] And I'd never met a man like him

[00:01:18] He pulled two men out from the sea

[00:01:21] By the hair in a raging storm

[00:01:24] And he kept that grateful sailing ship

[00:01:27] All the way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:01:33] Well the cargo weighed five thousand tons

[00:01:36] The ship three thousand more

[00:01:39] An acre of sail was up aloft

[00:01:41] Some seventeen storeys tall

[00:01:44] And we had a pig and a scruffy dog

[00:01:47] And a turkey fed on corn

[00:01:49] And willing hands drive around

[00:01:53] All the way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:01:58] Well it's four hours on and it's four hours off

[00:02:01] You sleep in your wet clothes

[00:02:04] The only dry thing on this ship

[00:02:07] Is the cargo down below

[00:02:09] Eleven thousand miles we sailed

[00:02:12] Nigh on one hundred dawns

[00:02:17] Thirty-two sails on a heaving ship

[00:02:20] Pulling us around the wild Cape Horn

[00:02:31] For seventeen days we were becalmed

[00:02:33] And then Friday the thirteenth

[00:02:37] Sixty eight great ships were lost

[00:02:39] In the storm of the century

[00:02:41] But we were blue into the Atlantic

[00:02:45] On a sun-lit sparkling morn

[00:02:49] The turkey got sick so we ate him quick

[00:02:52] On the way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:03:07] We lost two boys Now on that voyage

[00:03:11] They got thrown overboard

[00:03:14] Silence from us down below

[00:03:17] No one could put in words

[00:03:20] Two empty bunks to mark the space

[00:03:23] In our young lives to mourn

[00:03:28] Towns between all life and death

[00:03:30] On the way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:03:35] Well she had us sort of hypnotised

[00:03:38] No time to catch our breath

[00:03:41] If you want to love you alive

[00:03:44] Well you have to flirt with death

[00:03:47] Sail close to the hardest wind

[00:03:50] And treat all risks with scorn

[00:03:52] A farm boy and un-yoked team

[00:03:55] Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:04:08] Mountain waves like avalanches

[00:04:11] Crashed upon the decks

[00:04:13] The screaming winds snapped ropes and spars

[00:04:16] And tried to have us wrecked

[00:04:18] But she rose and fell through the foam and the swell

[00:04:22] Her sails were ripped and torn

[00:04:26] Eight thousand tons tossed like a cork

[00:04:29] It made it around the wild Cape Horn

[00:04:34] And she had us sort of hypnotised

[00:04:37] No time to catch our breath

[00:04:40] If you want to love alive

[00:04:42] You have to flirt with death

[00:04:45] And sail close to the hardest wind

[00:04:48] And treat all risks with scorn

[00:04:52] A farm boy and un-yoked team

[00:04:55] Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn

[00:05:00] Well a farmer boy and un-yoked team

[00:05:04] Ploughed their way around the wild Cape Horn