《Seven Mile Bridge》歌词

[00:07:12] Seven Mile Bridge - David Allan Coe

[00:07:12] You know as a child, he heard tell of the seven mile bridge

[00:07:12] That connected on marathon shore

[00:07:12] Yes and it was the gateway key west his grandpa

[00:07:12] Had told him ten times or more

[00:07:12] The stories of some sailors curse on the bridge

[00:07:12] Where it opens to let the boats through

[00:07:12] But the natives all laugh at grandpas old stories

[00:07:12] And swear that it just isn't true

[00:07:12] Now most of them sail across to Miami

[00:07:12] From the edge of the blue water line

[00:07:12] With craw fish and snappers to sell at the market

[00:07:12] For money to spend on some wine

[00:07:12] They always cross through at the seven mile bridge

[00:07:12] Except when the moon comes out full

[00:07:12] They're not superstitious they tell you as they are

[00:07:12] Repeating that old seaman's rule

[00:07:12] Watch out for those outlaws and pirates

[00:07:12] Lord knows that they'll steal you blind

[00:07:12] Don't mess around with those cutthroats and thieves

[00:07:12] They're robbers and killers of time

[00:07:12] And there's nothing worse than an old sailors curse

[00:07:12] On the seven mile bridge where you find

[00:07:12] They're stealing the future and making believe

[00:07:12] The past is still somewhere behind

[00:07:12] The seven mile bridge, the seven mile bridge

[00:07:12] And he found a woman who'd come here from Cuba

[00:07:12] She gave him a son and a dream

[00:07:12] They lived in a conch house somewhere on stock island

[00:07:12] With the seven mile bridge in between

[00:07:12] She'd spent her nights on the window walk wondering

[00:07:12] If he'd safely pull through the storm

[00:07:12] While he spent his money on painted up women

[00:07:12] And whiskey to keep his blood warm

[00:07:12] Then he'd gamble on crab races till he was broke

[00:07:12] While she sat up waiting all night

[00:07:12] Then felling too guilty to face her and tell her

[00:07:12] He'd look for some bully to fight

[00:07:12] At the end of the rainbow where the sun always shines

[00:07:12] Just south of the seven mile bridge

[00:07:12] She waits at the window for signs of his sailboat

[00:07:12] And tries not to worried the kids

[00:07:12] She sneaks a few drinks from the bottle she hides

[00:07:12] From a husband that's to tired to think

[00:07:12] With feelings of guilt she picks up the bottle

[00:07:12] And pours the remains in the sink

[00:07:12] Now she thinks of the men that stare at her boldly

[00:07:12] They know she's a woman alone

[00:07:12] With fingers that tremble she touches her body

[00:07:12] And wishes her man would come home

[00:07:12] Now the years pass so quickly for time is a thief

[00:07:12] His skin looks like leather by now

[00:07:12] His woman's got fat and lost all he

[00:07:12] But, Lord, she's lived up to her vow

[00:07:12] She looks at her son that's going on twenty

[00:07:12] He's ready to live his own life

[00:07:12] She hopes he can find a sea worthy woman

[00:07:12] A sailor sure needs a good wife

[00:07:12] Why he's just like his daddy

[00:07:12] She thinks as she watches

[00:07:12] Him weaving those fish nets all day

[00:07:12] Knowing that some time the seven mile bridge

[00:07:12] Will take him and lead him astray

[00:07:12] He might return his woman would learn

[00:07:12] Broke like his daddy and drunk

[00:07:12] She wrote down some words on an old piece of sail cloth

[00:07:12] Nailed it over his bunk

[00:07:12] Why then, she packed his sea bag and filled up his trunk

[00:07:12] His new wife would want it that way

[00:07:12] Just before the old man shook the younger lads hand

[00:07:12] These are the words he did say