Rockliffe Bay

He said part of me has been lost at sea
Never to return again

With her eyes wide open
She was softly spoken
said: "babe, are you missing the breeze again?"

You look just fine, sailor
Your shoes still shine
After years of a house that don't sway

But she could seein his eyes that ship's flag still flies
And his home was a ocean away

He sang, freedom was mine for one last time
When I was sailing along those waves

And now my plate don't slide
And my rum's now wine
And I will never be the same

I don't hear birds no more
But there's swallows on my hands
I earnt a star that wasn't plucked from above

I have memories of friends
Who left this earth as young men
Yet my hairs as white as my hat once, was

We sang, freedom was mine for one last time
When I was sailing along those waves

And now my plate don't slide
And my rum's now wine
And I will never be the same

I hear a blast in the background
Feel the wind whip my face
Towing a sister ship that didn't make it home

Colours, fade away from me as I awake, my wife said
"I'm sleeping next to my own"

I was but, freedom was mine for one last time
When I was sailing along those waves
And now my plate don't slide
And my rum's now wine
And I will never be the same

He sang, freedom was mine for one last time
When we were sailing along those waves
And now my plate don't slide
And my rum's now wine
And I will never be the same