Western Island

I came to a western island As far as a man can walk is my land I cleared ten acres and a house I built Into the side of the hill The roof leaks, the windows rattle And the grass in the high ground won't feed cattle The west wind blown off the sea Makes it hard to grow a tree One cow and a lean-to bier A spring close by and a driftwood fire A clear view of the settin' sun And a 12 gauge hammer gun I keep sheep, I fish deep water In a high bowed boat called the Neptune's Daughter She will ride any western gale And can carry a stack of sails Some nights when the bright lights flicker I sail to the mainland for my liquor I haven't got a woman to call my own But I never wake up alone A man needs to feel the ground and the wind To tell him the world spins round To watch the stars and taste the sea And a woman to keep him free I came to a western island As far as a man can walk is my land I cleared ten acres and a house I built Into the side of the hill