[ti:Dogtown (LP版)]
[ar:Harry Chapin]
[al:Heads & Tales]
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[00:00.00]Dogtown (LP版) - Harry Chapin
[00:09.20]Up in Massachusetts
[00:12.78]There's a little spit of land
[00:16.97]The men who make the maps
[00:20.85]Yes they call the place Cape Ann
[00:25.08]The men who do the fishing
[00:28.83]Call it Gloucester Harbor Sound
[00:32.96]But the women left behind
[00:36.92]They call the place Dogtown
[00:42.99]The men go out for whaling
[00:46.57]Past the breakers and the fogs
[00:50.55]The women stay home waiting
[00:54.04]They're protected by the dogs
[00:58.13]A tough old whaler woman
[01:01.48]Who had seen three husbands drown
[01:05.91]Polled the population
[01:09.32]And she named the place Dogtown
[01:14.32]There's all these grey faced women
[01:18.23]In their black widow's gowns
[01:22.76]Living in this graveyard granite town
[01:29.30]Yeah you soon learn there's many
[01:33.09]More than one way to drown
[01:36.83]That's while going to the dogs
[01:40.92]Here in Dogtown
[01:46.01]And she speaks
[01:48.79]My father was a merchant
[01:52.01]All in the Boston fief
[01:55.70]When my husband came
[01:57.94]And asked him for my hand
[02:03.57]But little did I know then
[02:07.03]That a Gloucester whaler's wife
[02:11.22]Marries but the sea salt
[02:14.58]And the sand
[02:18.60]He took me up to Dogtown
[02:22.26]The day I was a bride
[02:25.87]We had ten days together
[02:29.53]Before he left my side
[02:33.05]He's the first mate of a whaling ship
[02:36.99]The keeper of the log
[02:40.64]He said farewell my darling
[02:43.92]I'm going to leave you
[02:47.30]With my dog
[02:54.54]And I have seen the splintered timbers
[02:58.57]Of a hundred shattered hulls
[03:02.02]Known the silence of the granite
[03:05.27]And the screeching of the gulls
[03:09.16]I've heard that crazy widow Cather
[03:12.86]Walk the harbor as she raves
[03:17.33]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves
[03:39.73]Sitting by the fireside
[03:42.96]The embers slowly die
[03:47.82]Is it a sign of weakness
[03:51.80]When a woman wants to cry
[03:56.83]The dog is closely watching
[04:00.89]The fire glints in his eye
[04:06.02]No use to go to sleep this early
[04:10.29]No use to even try
[04:21.53]My blood beats like a woman's
[04:26.59]I've got a woman's breast and thighs
[04:32.53]But where am I to offer them
[04:36.79]To the ocean or the skies
[04:43.46]Living with this silent dog
[04:47.84]All the moments of my life
[04:54.34]He has been my only husband
[04:59.16]Am I a widow or his wife
[05:10.43]Yes it's a Dogtown and it's a fog town
[05:17.59]And there's nothing around 'cept the sea pounding granite ground
[05:26.36]And this black midnight horror of a hound
[05:43.83]I'm standing on this craggy cliff
[05:48.10]My eyes fixed on the sea
[05:51.97]Six months past when his ship was due
[05:55.72]I'm a widow to be
[05:59.67]For liking this half living with the lonely and the fog
[06:07.37]You need the bastard of the mating of a woman and a dog
[06:24.09]And I have seen the splintered timbers of a hundred shattered hulls
[06:31.54]Known the silence of the granite and the screeching of the gulls
[06:38.49]I've heard that crazy widow Cather walk the harbor as she raves
[06:46.46]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves
[06:53.95]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves
[07:01.97]At the endless rolling whisper of the waves