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SAILOR OF THE CENTURY
Melendres Street, Las Cruces NM, 1977
I've been a sailor for the past seven years
Sailin on the ocean of our country
I've seen the teachers, the preachers of fear
Who kept me from the woman who loved me
In the third year of the flood we met at Mt Rainier
Where we helped build the village of the mountain
We lived each other's lives through the hunger and the tears
An we drank the love that flowed like a fountain.
Now I'm known as the sailor of the century
The man who cheats the forces from above
From the Colorado Islands to the shores of Tennessee
I'll sail the American Ocean till I find my love.
Then the teachers walked among us and told us of the sea
That lay to the east of the desert
They told us there were places where people were still free
Where the teachers had control of the weather
She told me there would never be another in her life
But she had to see what happened to the east
Before she left we married in the night of the knife
When I became a killer of the beast.
Now I'm known as the sailor of the century
The man who cheats the forces from above
From the Colorado Islands to the shores of Tennessee
I'll sail the American Ocean till I find my love
I've been everywhere that there's left to be
And my lady may not want me when I find her
But my life has not been empty as I sailed across the sea
I'm not just the man she left behind her.