[00:41.679]The leading lights of the age
[00:45.080]All wondered amongst themselves what I would do next
[00:50.454]After all that I'd found in my travels around the world
[00:55.817]Was there anything left?
[00:59.345]"Gentlemen," I said, "I've studied the charts
[01:02.961]And if what I'm thinking is right
[01:07.417]There's another new world at the top of the world
[01:11.785]For the first one new breaks through the ice"
[01:14.794]And I looked round the room
[01:20.952]In that way I once had
[01:22.828]And I saw that they wanted belief
[01:26.763]So, I said, "All I got are my guts and my God"
[01:30.769]Then I paused, "And the Annabelle Lee"
[01:36.780]Oh, the Annabelle Lee, I saw their eyes shine
[01:41.798]The most beautiful ship in the sea
[01:46.262]My Nina, my Pinta, my Santa Maria
[01:49.961]My beautiful Annabelle Lee
[02:20.469]That spring I set sail
[02:21.908]As the crowd waved from shore
[02:23.312]And on board the crew waved their hands
[02:26.230]But I never had family, just the Annabelle Lee
[02:29.145]So, I'd never had cause to look back
[02:32.346]I just set the course north and I studied the charts
[02:35.108]And towards dawn, I drifted toward sleep
[02:38.522]And I dreamed of the fine, deep harbor I'd find
[02:41.354]Past the ice for my Annabelle Lee
[02:44.118]After that it got colder
[02:47.941]And the world got quiet
[02:49.625]It was never quite day or quite night
[02:52.314]And the sea turned the color of sky
[02:54.276]Turned the color of sea
[02:55.671]Turned the color of ice
[02:58.514]'Till at last all around us was fastness
[03:00.752]One vast, glassy desert of arsenic white
[03:04.549]And the waves that once lifted us
[03:06.350]shifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides
[03:10.422]And the crew gathered closer
[03:13.606]At first for the warmth
[03:15.175]But each day would bring a new set
[03:17.973]Of the tracks in the snow leading over the edge
[03:21.088]Of the world 'till I was the only one left
[03:24.198]And then it gets cloudy
[03:25.504]But itseems like I laid there
[03:27.009]For days and maybe for months
[03:29.889]But Annabelle held me, just the two of us happily
[03:33.147]think back on all we had done
[03:59.821]We talked of the other new worlds we'd discover
[04:02.873]As she gave up her body to me
[04:05.483]And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber
[04:08.220]I told her of all that we still had to see
[04:11.648]And as the frost turned her moorings to ninetail
[04:14.220]And the wind lashed her sides in the cold
[04:17.986]I burned her to keep me alive every night
[04:20.795]In the loving embrace of her hold
[04:25.843]and I won't call it rescue
[04:32.288]to brought me back hereto The old world to drink and decline
[04:39.324]And pretend that the search for another new world
[04:43.785]Was well worth the burning of mine
[04:50.156]But sometimes at night
[04:52.777]In my dreams comes the singing
[04:54.840]Of some unknown tropical bird
[04:58.713]And I smile in my sleep, thinking Annabelle Lee
[05:03.073]Has finally made it to another new world
[05:07.621]Yeah, sometimes at night
[05:10.075]In my dreams comes the singing
[05:11.622]Of some unknown tropical bird
[05:14.812]And I smile in my sleep, thinking Annabelle Lee
[05:18.376]Has finally made it to another new world