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13th lock (part 1)

from SONGS & STORIES Volume 1 by Alain Servant

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13th Lock

Oh a bright born day, in the month of May
And a weeping group stands by
For to bid adieu to the gallant crew
That sails as the sun mount high
Leaning over the waves and the mariners brave
That wreck might on storm or rock
And they laugh and smoke and they jest and joke
Though they’re bound for the 13th Lock.

Oh skippers! Quote a mariner gay
Who stood nine narrow bone lane
I’m a sailor old and I threw as bold
As roves on its angry main
Thirteen be still to the number ill
Be ware young man don’t mock
Right scornfully, laughed the captain see
I am bound for the 13th Lock.

Ah Pat be ware, cried a dangle fair
Sail not today me dear
We warned all scorned this Friday morn’
The day through mariner’s fear
And what would I do Pat if I lost you
Sure my heart could not stand the shock
Full merely laughed the captain see
I am bound for the 13th Lock.

Cease long your sighs dim not your eyes
With beauty killing tears
And you may be bound I’ll come back sound
So calm your woman’s fears
And I bring to thee a chimpanzee
A parrot and a Jalberwalk
A kangaroo and a cockatoo
From the wilds of the 13th Lock.

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from SONGS & STORIES Volume 1, released July 15, 2021

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Alain Servant Dublin, Ireland

The music of Alain Servant is a synthesis of his years of artistic vagrancy. His practice is based in narrative: his craft is the construction of worlds where everything is distorted yet illuminated. Listening his albums is like rolling through the shifting narrative structure of a dream revealing a unique wisdom that weaves piss and vinegar parables, speaking reassurances in hoarse tones. ... more

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