I Cover the Waterfront / My Ship

Away from the city that hurts and mocks

I'm standing alone by the desolate docks

In the still and the chill of the night

I see the horizon, the great unknown

My heart has an ache it's as heavy as stone

Will the dawn coming on make it light?

I cover the waterfront

I'm watching the sea

Will the one I love be coming back to me?

I cover the waterfront

In search of my love

And I'm covered by a starlit sky above

Oh, here am I, patiently waiting

Hoping and longing

Oh, how I yearn

Where are you?

Are you forgetting?

Do you remember?

Will you return?

I cover the waterfront

I'm watching, I'm watching, I'm watching the sea

For the one I love must soon come back to me

Oh, my ship has sails that are made of silk

The decks are trimmed with gold

Jams and spice, there's a paradise in the hold

My ship's aglow with a million pearls

Rubies fill each bin

Oh, thatsSun sits high in a sapphire sky

Oh, when my ship comes in

But I will wait the years

Till it appears

One fine day one spring

And the pearls and such

Won't mean half as much

If there's missing just one thing

Don't you know, baby

I do not care if that day arrives

That dream need never be

If the ship I sing

Doesn't also bring

My own true love to me

If the ship I sing

Doesn't also bring

My own true love to me

If the ship I sing

Doesn't also bring

My own true love to me