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Lyrics for Seven Mile Bridge by David Alan Coe:
| | | Artist: | David Alan Coe |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Seven Mile Bridge | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 85 | | | | Lyrics: | By David Allan Coe
Dedicated to the wife's of sailors everywhere and to the grandfather who
never got to hear my stories and songs.
YOU KNOW, AS A CHILD, HE HEARD TELL OF THE SEVEN
MILE BRIDGE
THAT CONNECTED ON MARATHON SHORE
YES, AND IT WAS THE GATEWAY KEY WEST
HIS GRANDPA
HAD TOLD HIM TEN TIMES OR MORE.
THE STORIES OF SOME SAILORS CURSE ON
THE BRIDGE
WHERE IT OPENS TO LET THE BOATS THROUGH
BUT THE NATIVES ALL LAUGH AT
GRANDPAS OLD STORIES
AND SWEAR THAT IT JUST ISN'T TRUE
NOW MOST OF THEM
SAIL ACROSS TO MIAMI
FROM THE EDGE OF THE BLUE WATER LINE
WITH CRAWFISH AND
SNAPPERS TO SELL AT THE MARKET
FOR MONEY TO SPEND ON SOME WINE
THEY ALWAYS CROSS
THROUGH AT THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE
EXCEPT WHEN THE MOON COMES OUT FULL
THEY'RE NOT
SUPERSTITIOUS THEY TELL YOU AS THEY ARE
REPEATING THAT OLD SEAMAN'S RULE
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE OUTLAWS AND PIRATES
LORD KNOWS THAT THEY'LL STEAL YOU
BLIND
DON'T MESS AROUND WITH THOSE CUTTHROATS AND THIEVES
THEY'RE ROBBERS AND
KILLERS OF TIME
AND THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN AN OLD SAILORS CURSE
ON THE SEVEN
MILE BRIDGE WHERE YOU FIND
THEY'RE STEALING THE FUTURE AND MAKING BELIEVE
THE
PAST IS STILL SOMEWHERE BEHIND
THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE , THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE
AND HE FOUND A WOMAN WHO'D COME HERE FROM CUBA
SHE GAVE HIM A SON AND A
DREAM
THEY LIVED IN A CONCH HOUSE SOMEWHERE ON STOCK ISLAND
WITH THE SEVEN MILE
BRIDGE IN BETWEEN
SHED SPENT HER NIGHTS ON THE WINDOW WALK WONDERING
IF HE'D
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