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* The Boatman

* from the highest hill i look out often to try if i can see the boatman
come you today, or come you tomorrow
and sad am i if you will come never,
oh the boatman and i call your name,
the nearer, the further, and i call you again my long farewell wherever you go to .

* my heart within is bruised and broken
and from my eyes the tears are streaming
come you tonight - shall i expect you
or shut the door with heavy sighing
oh the boatman, my long farewell wherever you go to .

* often then i ask the boatmen
if they have seen you, if you’re in safety
but every one of them is saying that if i love you well then i am foolish .

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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