Last Night Danny Went Sailing

Last night Danny went sailing Under a peaceful moon Over the troubled waters Down to a quiet lagoon And i can't help from feeling we failed him Though I can't say how we could have done more But last night, Danny went sailing And he ain't coming back anymore Young Danny Simon did most of his climbing In some bedroom town in New York He was mothered and fathered He was sent off to Harvard You can still hear the relatives talk But the sweet streets of Cambridge All their share of dangers And something inside him went snap Oh, he left home a hero He was brought down to zero And now he can't even go back So last night, Danny went sailing Under a peaceful moon Over the troubled waters Down to a quiet lagoon And I can't help from feeling we failed him Though I can't say how we could have done more But last night, Danny went sailing And he ain't coming back anymore Now I don't know how far down he fell into our town On the streets with the crazy and poor But they had him committed, he was never acquitted He got stuck in that revolving door So he played Jeremiah, the storefront messiah Preached gospel, told fortunes and laughed When his daughter was born, he begged money from home But soon, they just stopped right back And last night, Daddy went sailing Under a peaceful moon Over the troubled waters Down to a quiet lagoon And I can't help from feeling we've failed him Though I can't say how we could have done more But last night, Danny went sailing And he ain't coming back anymore Last night, Danny Simon went laughing and climbing To a place we call Indian Leap It's a sheer rocky wall, it's a hundred foot far To the cool, stony bed of a creek And he flung his arms wide to the world you can't hide from He ran down that weary, worn track He flashed out like a flare, like a cross in the air And I don't think he ever looked back And last night, Danny went sailing Under a peaceful moon Over the troubled waters Down to a quiet lagoon And I can't help from feeling we've failed him Though I can't say how we could have done more But last night, Danny went sailing And he ain't coming back anymore