NW3030
Boat of silver
SATB & drum
performance time approx 3m 00s
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Boat of silver
I came across this beautiful tune while searching for material for a concert of ‘Water Music’, and immediately wanted to make a choral setting of it. Judy Goodenough was a published poet and song-writer whose songs have been sung and recorded by a number of artists. This particular song has been recorded by Maine singer song-writer Gordon Bokhis
Words
Boat of silver
There's many ships tarry in the harbor,
Many roads wind across the hill;
And many roses grow on the arbor.
Many's the girl waits for me there still.
For swiftly come all the tides returning,
Swiftly go then and will not stay.
There is no boatman can net the morning,
There is no boatman can net the day.
The fish run deep, oh they run so deeply,
I cannot find them in the seas.
The lonely road winds the hill so steeply,
I'll lay me down now and take my ease.
The rose that blooms blows its petals over,
And the thorns lie upon the bough.
The girls have gone now to a different lover,
They will not linger beside me now.
I will build me a boat of silver,
Steer it with a golden oar,
And I will row out of this sad harbor
And never sail back to any shore.
J. B. Goodenough
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