I was a young lad, but still I remember,
as though it were yesterday,
the time that was spent with the one they call Captain
in a ship full of castaways.
I boarded the vessel, crimson in color,
adrift on the open sea.
The mast it was sturdy, the crew in a hurry,
and this is the song they would sing:
“Oh, oh, life is a sea,
rough as the journey and current may be.
Oh, oh life is a sea,
a voyage we’re on, my Captain and me.”
We took to the ocean, life was our lesson,
and sailed for the great beyond.
Through every season, through every storm,
I joined them in singing along:
“Oh, oh, life is a sea,
rough as the journey and current may be.
Oh, oh life is a sea,
a voyage we’re on, my Captain and me.”
A few of the crew were lost in the autumn,
swallowed up by the deep.
We mourned for the fallen, the lost and forgotten,
never again would they sing:
“Oh, oh, life is a sea,
rough as the journey and current may be.
Oh, oh life is a sea,
a voyage we’re on, my Captain and me.”
Oh, oh, life is a sea,
rough as the journey and current may be.
Oh, oh life is a sea,
a voyage we’re on, my Captain and me.
A voyage we’re on, my Captain and me.
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