Buffet/Duchess Music)
Mother, Mother ocean, I have heard you call
And I wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all
you've seen it all
Watched the men that rode you switch from sail to steam
and in your belly you hold a treasure that few have ever seen
Most of them dreams
most of them dreams
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
But the cannon don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder,
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late
arriving too late
Well, I go for younger women, I lived with several a while
And though I ran 'em away they all come back one day
We still have managed to smile
It just takes a while
just takes a while
And I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass
And though I made enough money to buy Miami,
I pissed it away so fast
It was never meant to last
never meant to last
Well, I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I gotta quit wishin', I gotta go fishin',
I'm down to rock bottom again
with just a few friends
just a few old friends
Mother, Mother Ocean, after all the years I've found
the occupational hazard being, the occupation's just not around
I feel I could drown
Goin' to head uptown
I feel like I've drowned