Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk Wave Over Wave 
Wave Over Wave (Jim Payne) 
Me name's Able Rogers, a shareman am I On a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west But the middle of nowhere's where I like it best
 Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow There's no other life for a sailor like me But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea There's no other life but to sail the salt sea 
The work it is hard and the hours are long My spirit is willing, my back it is strong And when the work's over then whiskey we'll pour We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore 
I'd leave my wife lonely ten months of the year She made me a home and raised my children dear But she'd never come out to bid farewell to me Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea 
I've sailed the wide oceans four decades or more And ofttimes I've wondered what I do it for I don't know the answer, it's pleasure and pain With life to live over, I'd do it again 
From the collection of Andrew Draskoy, andrew@bransle.ucs.mun.ca AJS oct97