The Ship Song Lyrics

[Chorus:]They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it I do not know For my name was Elisa Day From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one As she...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, ohI'd just finished writing "Jubilee Street"I laid down on my bed and fell into a deep sleepAnd when I awoke, I believed I'd taken a bride called Mary StanfordAnd I flew into a...Read Full Lyrics

It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead RowOf which I am nearly wholly innocent, you knowAnd I'll say it againI am not afraid to dieI began to warm and chill...Read Full Lyrics

As the snow fliesOn a cold and grey Chicago mornA poor little baby child is born in the ghettoAnd his mama criesCause there's one thing that she don't needIs another little hungry ...Read Full Lyrics

It's difficultIt's very toughI said to the man who'd been sleeping roughTo sit within a fragrant breezeAll among the nodding treesThat hang heavy with the stuffHe threw his arms ar...Read Full Lyrics

Past the ivy-covered windows of the angelDown Athenaeum Lane to the cathedralThrough the churchyard I wanderedSat for a spell there and I ponderedMy back to the gates My back to th...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

O my o my, what a wretched lifeI was born on the day that my poor mama diedI was cut from her belly with a Stanley knifeMy daddy did a jig with the drunk midwifeWho's that yonder a...Read Full Lyrics

They're gonna lay me low (lay me low)They're gonna sink me in the snowThey're gonna throw back their heads and crowWhen I goThey're gonna jump and shout (lay me low)They're gonna w...Read Full Lyrics

Everybody got a room [Repeat: x3]In God's Hotel.Everybody got a room.Well you'll never see a sign hanging on the doorSayin 'No vacancies anymore'.Everybody got wings [Repeat: x3]In...Read Full Lyrics