www.TheImmigrants.com
Click here to listen to tracks from the 16-Song CD, Charlestown, released by The Immigrants on Railway House Records in 1994.
Different Drummer
The Different Drummer - Click Here
A Drummer's Blog by Dan Sheridan ~ drummer in The Immigrants.
Dedication Page
The Immigrant website is dedicated to our great-grandfather, Jack Lynch, an Irish immigrant killed on the job in a NYC sewer on August 26, 1908. Click here to read article in the NY Sun.
Lyrics from the Charlestown CD
15.) The Ocean Breathe
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
Square rigger out of New Bedford
Bound for perdition on the ocean sea
A man aloft stays alert on watch
There she blows on the larboard side
The captain shouts, the whaleboats lower
The crew give chase, the harpooner stands up.
Dead leviathan beside the ship,
Down below the crew try to sleep,
Above the thrashing of the sharks,
Outside the hull, on the ocean sea.
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
On Johnny Cake Hill back in New Bedford
There’s a cenotaph on the wall in Bethel’s chapel
Black chisel marks in the white marble
Tell the names of the crew on the Acushnet
Near Sable Island off Nova Scotia
Towed out of sight in their boat by a whale
Wild horses roaming free on Sable Island
And down below on the rocky beach
The crashing waves of the sea
The ocean sea, the ocean sea
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
Breathe Deep the Ocean Breathe
Listen to: The Ocean Breathe
16.) Waiting
I'm always Waiting,
I'm always Waiting.
No, I’m not upset.
So what you overslept.
You leave me out on a limb.
I’m sick and tired, I wanna come in, I'm
Waiting, Waiting
Now, I’m a little upset.
If it’s not this, it’s something else.
You always leave me out on a limb.
I’m sick and tired of shivering, just
Waiting, Waiting.
I got caught up in traffic
I took a train, but the train was late.
You always leave me out to dry.
I’m sick and tired of wondering why.
I got caught up, I got caught up, Now I’m
Waiting, Waiting.
Now I’m really upset.
If it’s not this, it’s something else.
You always leave me out to dry.
I’m sick and tired of wondering why.
I’m always
Waiting, Waiting.
Listen to: Waiting
Tailpiece
Tales from the Railway House...
Listen to: Tailpiece
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