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Lonesome Sailor's Lament

from The No Spoons Sessions by Jennifer Vena Wood

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There's a time in every sojourn where we wish we could cut it short and just come home today.

My voice is a little rough on this one, but it carries everything I'm feeling, so I think I'm gonna keep it.

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On this beautiful morning, I woke up feeling grey
Thinking of my sweetheart, a thousand miles away
Oh, a thousand miles away
Far away to the east I've been
To spend some time with kin
I'm counting all the days and nights 'til
I see my true love again
Oh, see my own true love again

If I had a ship to sail on, I'd leave here today
Chart a course for my true love, sail out from the bay
Oh, sail out from the bay
Call all hands to the capstan, boys
Trim the mainsail true
Send a cable to my own true love, sayin'
I'm a-comin home to you
Oh, I'm a-comin' home to you

Down at the public dock yard, I watch the tide come in
Like ships swinging at their anchor, how my heart does spin
Oh, how my heart does spin
'Cause I been kickin around this little port town
Pacing round and round
If I could snap my fingers, boys
I'd be home right now
Oh, I'd be home right now

Call all hands to the capstan boys
Trim the mainsail true
Send a cable to my own true love, sayin'
I'm a-comin home to you
Oh, I'm a-comin' home to you
I'm a-comin' home to you, oh
I'm a-comin' home
To you!

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from The No Spoons Sessions, released April 28, 2023

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Jennifer Vena Wood Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jennifer Vena Wood is a singer-songwriter, who writes ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs -- occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires. Lifting voices and spirits with music and good company, in the richest of folk tradition. ... more

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