Original song by Julia Yob, ©2023
(third round of writing edits)

🌊 THE LAMENTING SEA
History Note: This song is a reimagining of the 1787 (or earlier!) English folk song “The Lamenting Maid,” also known as “Early One Morning”

LYRICS:

[Heave-ho... Heave-ho...]

Late at sea one evening, just as a storm was rising
I heard a terrifying song from the water down below:
~~~“Oh, don’t deceive me, oh never leave me,
~~~How could you use a poor maiden so?”

Hearing and harboring such wonder at the wailing,
I paused at the railing to listen deeper still:
~~~“Oh, don’t deceive me, don’t ever leave me,
~~~How could you use your poor lover ill?”

~“Through yonder cove by the spring that is bubbling,
~There you and I had so merrily played.
~Kissing and courting, increasingly sporting,
~Til now, our sweet bower you’ve brazenly betrayed.
~~~“Oh, don’t deceive me - you said you’d never leave me,
~~~How could you allow our promises to fade?”

Grim was the voice; grimmer still the cessation -
When low, deep vibrations seemed to tear apart the sky.
Thunder came crashing - the water started thrashing,
We clung with hands that shook with fear,
As we braced and closed our eyes...

Fin'ly came morning, and a sharp end to the storming,
We looked around and found that we had somehow made it through.
Counting supplies with our sunlight-starved eyes,
We found ourselves a lifeboat short - and a sailor lighter, too....
~~~“Oh, don’t deceive me, oh never leave me,
~~~Promis-ed forever, now I’ll never let you go.”

[Heave-ho... Heave-ho...]

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