《Dogtown》歌词

[00:00:00] Dogtown - Harry Chapin

[00:00:11] Up in massachusetts there's a little spit of land

[00:00:18] The men who make the maps

[00:00:22] Yes they call the place cape ann

[00:00:26] The men who do the fishing call it gloucester harbor sound

[00:00:34] But the women left behind they call the place dogtown

[00:00:44] The men go out for whaling

[00:00:48] Past the breakers and the fogs

[00:00:51] The women stay home waiting they're protected by the dogs

[00:00:59] A tough old whaler woman who had seen three husbands drown

[00:01:07] Polled the population and she named the place dogtown

[00:01:15] There's all these grey faced

[00:01:18] Women in their black widow's gowns

[00:01:24] Living in this grave yard granite town

[00:01:30] Yeah you soon learn there's many more than one way to drown

[00:01:38] That's while going to the dogs here in dogtown

[00:01:47] And she speaks

[00:01:49] My father was a merchant all in the boston fief

[00:01:57] When my husband came and asked him for my hand

[00:02:04] But little did I know then that a gloucester whaler's wife

[00:02:12] Marries but the sea salt and the sand

[00:02:19] He took me up to dogtown the day I was a bride

[00:02:27] We had ten days together before he left my side

[00:02:34] He's the first mate of a whaling ship

[00:02:38] The keeper of the log

[00:02:41] He said farewell my darling

[00:02:45] I'm going to leave you with my dog

[00:02:55] And I have seen the splintered

[00:02:58] Timbers of a hundred shattered hulls

[00:03:03] Known the silence of the granite

[00:03:06] And the screeching of the gulls

[00:03:10] I've heard that crazy widow

[00:03:13] Cather walk the harbor as she raves

[00:03:18] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:03:40] Sitting by the fireside the embers slowly die

[00:03:48] Is it a sign of weakness when a woman wants to cry

[00:03:58] The dog is closely watching the fire glints in his eye

[00:04:07] No use to go to sleep this early no use to even try

[00:04:22] My blood beats like a woman's

[00:04:27] I've got a woman's breast and thighs

[00:04:33] But where am I to offer them

[00:04:37] To the ocean or the skies

[00:04:44] Living with this silent dog

[00:04:48] All the moments of my life

[00:04:55] He has been my only husband

[00:05:00] Am I a widow or his wife

[00:05:11] Yes it's a dogtown and it's a fog town

[00:05:18] And there's nothing around 'cept

[00:05:22] The sea pounding granite ground

[00:05:27] And this black midnight horror of a hound

[00:05:44] I'm standing on this craggy cliff

[00:05:49] My eyes fixed on the sea

[00:05:52] Six months past when his ship was due

[00:05:56] I'm a widow to be

[00:06:00] For liking this half living

[00:06:04] With the lonely and the fog

[00:06:08] You need the bastard of the mating of a woman and a dog

[00:06:25] And I have seen the splintered

[00:06:27] Timbers of a hundred shattered hulls

[00:06:32] Known the silence of the granite

[00:06:35] And the screeching of the gulls

[00:06:39] I've heard that crazy widow

[00:06:42] Cather walk the harbor as she raves

[00:06:47] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:06:55] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves

[00:07:03] At the endless rolling whisper of the waves