Roll Back The Years

Candle Burnt bright on a dark winter's night

Through a window that looked out to sea

And as the dawn broke a fair child was born

In the Cottage at the edge of the quay.

Harsh was the wind as the tide came on in

No boat could be seen on the sea

The fishing kept on all through the day

They stood there on Mount misery.

Roll on the Rippling waves

Roll on the blue

Roll the years back to a life we once knew

Battered and torn the boats came to shore

As the twilight crept over the Quay

One boat was lost never came back

Was the father she never would see

The years came and went, and she quickly grew up.

The fairest of fair maids was she

Her hair was as Gold as the gauze on the corn

Her eyes were blue is the sea.

Roll on the Rippling waves

Roll on the blue

Roll the years back to a life we once knew

The fisher lad courted but to all she said no

A lonely old maid I shall be

For no man of mine she'll share the same fate

As the father I never did see.

But there came one at last who captured her heart.

She followed her stern destiny

She cast in a lot like her mother before

And married that man , from the sea.

Roll on the Rippling waves

Roll on the blue

Roll the years back to a life we once knew

On the dark winters night when a storms in the air

Come stand by the quay once again

The sound of her sigh comes back on the wind

And the sting of those tears in the rain.

Roll on the Rippling waves

Roll on the blue

Roll the years back to a life we once knew