O My Chesapeake

歌詞

When I was a young man I released my feet And they carried me strong across the trouble I'd meet When without peace, when weary the most They'd head for the east and I'd sleep on the coast When the summer's wrap come and knock on my door See my friends and their pipes sit upon my porch A love was the highway, a light was the bridge I got high in a way that I haven't got since O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake Forget all the things my soul does seek The boy needs no dinner when the tobacco is sweet I'll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake We ran down our nights in rundown hotels With balcony cries and bottles and bells To abandoned weeks, to hangover days To not quit tomorrow what we could quit today O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake Forget all the things my soul does seek I guess the moment is best when the moment is brief I'll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake And now every summer I hear no call Even my friends are not lawyers, they don't work at all You can call that man History, who lives in the past Can you blame him for askin' for somethin' to last? O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake Forget all the things my soul does seek Another Sunday dead, another needless week I'll sleep tonight upon the Chesapeake