Nantucket

I was born on Nantucket, I'm a scallop man's son

I grew up pulling shellfish 'neath the Atlantic sun

But a taste for adventure and the start of a dream

Brought me to Boston when I was just seventeen

So I married a lady and I took her down south

To find work on the railroads in the great smoky mounts

But I oft missed the seashore and the change of the tide

And each night I'd see an ocean of stars in the sky

And I'll sing o'er these mountains from morning till noon

And dance by the light of the moon

Sing o'er these mountains till my song hits the sea

Carries with it all of my memory

We littered the landscape and we cut down the trees

Blew holes through the mountains, brought the Earth to her knees

These days I feel sorrow about the work that I've done

And I sure miss the water, I'm a scallop man's son

I'll sing o'er these mountains from morning till noon

And dance by the light of the moon

Sing o'er these mountains till my song hits the sea

Carries with it, all of my memory

Carries with it, all of my memory

Oooooooh

Now I've got three children and a wife in her grave

Our youngest one bled her 'till she could not be saved

Still the salt's in my skin and it's in my blood too

And it falls in these tears that I cry for you

Tears that I cry for my cold Atlantic blue

I'll sing o'er these mountains from morning to noon

And dance by the light of the moon

Sing o'er these mountains till my song hits the sea

Carries with it all of my memory

Carries with it all of my memory

Carries with it all of my memory

Ooooooooh