Kyle Thompson: Music

Gloucester Men



Come hearty boys to the call of the sea
Like our fathers before us, it’s our destiny
We’re off for ‘The Banks’
Where you’ll labor and learn
That when the fish holds are full…
That is when you’ll return

We’re Gloucester men…the finest kind.
Leave our sweethearts heartbroken
For the nets and the lines
We’re Gloucester men…we drink and we’ll fight
And we leave in the morning
Before the dawns light

It’s down to the harbor when the fair wind blows
When and if we’ll return, not one of us knows.
But a bounty is waiting
‘Neith the birds and the tide
And thousands of men
That have sought it have died.

We’re Gloucester men…the finest kind.
Leave our sweethearts heartbroken
For the nets and the lines
We’re Gloucester men…we drink and we’ll fight
And we leave in the morning
Before the dawns light

And if the Captain is able
And the vessel she’s sound
Well ye’ might strike a fortune
Before runnin’ a ground
It’s a life time of workin’ your fingers to bone
But you don’t seem to mind
When you set sails for home

We’re Gloucester men…the finest kind.
Leave our sweethearts heartbroken
For the nets and the lines
We’re Gloucester men…we drink and we’ll fight
And be gone in the mornin’
Before the dawns light