Oh, What a Life

Sometimes I'd look to the sea
With tears, and I'd smile
For the peace and the bliss
And an ocean that was mine

And Jack would kiss me
And tell me the tales of the deep
Of mermaids and monsters
And pirate girls

And I sang to him
Oh, what a life I'm living
Oh, what a life
I'm free as the wind in the sails
Of the ship I am sailing

And he said to me
This is the life, my darlin'
Oh, what a life
And one day you'll tell them the tales
Of the woman who sailed it

Sometimes on silver waves
I saw her once confined
But the rum on his kiss
And the ring of his laugh
Cast off her ghost on the tide

We'd drink to the wind
And roll of the waves
We'd drink till dawn blushed the spray
I laughed as I swore
No king of the shore
Had a throne like the one I'd gained

And I sang to him
Oh, what a life I'm living
Oh, what a life
I'm free as the wind in the sails
Of the ship I am sailing

And he said to me
This is the life, my darlin'
Oh, what a life
And one day you'll tell them the tales
Of the woman who sailed it