Big Blue
from Watershed by The Cold River Ranters
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lyrics
If I lived beside the ocean I would not be standing here;
I would get up in the morning, grab my coffee, grab my gear;
Take my truck down to the water and put some bait upon my hook.
I would not go to the diner, I would catch a fish to cook.
Big blues running in November, icy wind upon my face;
Sitting here I still remember summer flounders' tender taste.
Sitting here I still remember when to you my heart confessed
That I loved you more than ever, and I kissed your heaving breast.
As I sit here on my perch upon my pickup in the tide
I see the wooden ships come close and hear their ghostly sailors cry.
Crying from the rigging to the turbid waters down below --
Two-hundred years ago they knew a killing wind was gonna blow.
North wind coming from New England pierce my skin and sinews through
To frozen bones and icy fingers, trembling as I think of you
Standing by the window as the sun lights up the sound
And reflects upon you standing in your lacy morning gown.
Ah, but I don't live beside the ocean; and that is why I'm standing here.
I still get up in the morning, grab my coffee, grab my gear.
Leave my heart home on the shelf and disconnect my sensing wires,
And watch the dying embers from my life's once raging fires.
No -- I'm gonna live beside the ocean, or maybe by some mountain stream;
I'll catch fish off of my back porch; and I want you all to come and visit me.
I would get up in the morning, grab my coffee, grab my gear;
Take my truck down to the water and put some bait upon my hook.
I would not go to the diner, I would catch a fish to cook.
Big blues running in November, icy wind upon my face;
Sitting here I still remember summer flounders' tender taste.
Sitting here I still remember when to you my heart confessed
That I loved you more than ever, and I kissed your heaving breast.
As I sit here on my perch upon my pickup in the tide
I see the wooden ships come close and hear their ghostly sailors cry.
Crying from the rigging to the turbid waters down below --
Two-hundred years ago they knew a killing wind was gonna blow.
North wind coming from New England pierce my skin and sinews through
To frozen bones and icy fingers, trembling as I think of you
Standing by the window as the sun lights up the sound
And reflects upon you standing in your lacy morning gown.
Ah, but I don't live beside the ocean; and that is why I'm standing here.
I still get up in the morning, grab my coffee, grab my gear.
Leave my heart home on the shelf and disconnect my sensing wires,
And watch the dying embers from my life's once raging fires.
No -- I'm gonna live beside the ocean, or maybe by some mountain stream;
I'll catch fish off of my back porch; and I want you all to come and visit me.
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from Watershed,
released November 21, 2015
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The Cold River Ranters Keene, New Hampshire
HOT GONZO PRIMITIVE FOLK JIVE!
Traditional & original all-acoustic music from the hills of Southern NH...
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Nov 2015 -
Sep 2010
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