Old Admirals Lyrics

Song	Old Admirals
Artist	Al Stewart
Album	Past, Present and Future
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	作词 : Stewart
	I can well recall the first time
	I ever put to sea,
	It was on the old "Calcutta" in eighteen fifty-three.
	I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be
	To make my way in sailing ships of the
	Royal Navy.
	By the time that
	I was twenty-one
	I'd sailed the world around,
	Weathered storms in the
	China seas with the hatches battened down,
	And made my way by starlight off the coast of
	Newfoundland
	And dined on beer and herrings while the waves blew all around.
	I live in retirement now and through my window comes the sound
	Of seagulls and sets my mind remembering.
	The evening stars like memories sail far beyond the distant trees
	Way out across the open seas
	I hear them sing.
	Oh, the wooden ships they turned to iron and the iron ships to steel
	And shed their sails like autumn leaves with the turning of the wheel
	And I was given
	Captain's rank, and soon took under me the proudest ship that ever sailed for
	Queen and country.
	Ah, the old queen she passed away with the newborn century
	And I received my calling up to the admiralty.
	The sands ran through the hourglass each day more rapidly
	As we watched the growing of the fleets of
	High Germany.
	So at last the
	Great War blazed
	I waited with the passing days a call to arms that never came, writing letters. "I may be old now in your eyes, but all my years have made me wise, You don't see where the danger lies, oh call me back, call me back..."
	But the war, it ran its course they could find no use for me
	And I live in the country now, grandchildren on my knee
	And sometimes think in all this world the saddest thing to be
	Old admirals who feel the wind and never put to sea.
	Now just like you,
	I've sailed my dreams like ships across the sea
	And some of them they've come on rocks and some faced mutiny
	And when they're sunken one by one
	I'll join that company -
	Old admirals who feel the wind, and never put to sea.

	zuo ci : Stewart
	I can well recall the first time
	I ever put to sea,
	It was on the old " Calcutta" in eighteen fiftythree.
	I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be
	To make my way in sailing ships of the
	Royal Navy.
	By the time that
	I was twentyone
	I' d sailed the world around,
	Weathered storms in the
	China seas with the hatches battened down,
	And made my way by starlight off the coast of
	Newfoundland
	And dined on beer and herrings while the waves blew all around.
	I live in retirement now and through my window comes the sound
	Of seagulls and sets my mind remembering.
	The evening stars like memories sail far beyond the distant trees
	Way out across the open seas
	I hear them sing.
	Oh, the wooden ships they turned to iron and the iron ships to steel
	And shed their sails like autumn leaves with the turning of the wheel
	And I was given
	Captain' s rank, and soon took under me the proudest ship that ever sailed for
	Queen and country.
	Ah, the old queen she passed away with the newborn century
	And I received my calling up to the admiralty.
	The sands ran through the hourglass each day more rapidly
	As we watched the growing of the fleets of
	High Germany.
	So at last the
	Great War blazed
	I waited with the passing days a call to arms that never came, writing letters. " I may be old now in your eyes, but all my years have made me wise, You don' t see where the danger lies, oh call me back, call me back..."
	But the war, it ran its course they could find no use for me
	And I live in the country now, grandchildren on my knee
	And sometimes think in all this world the saddest thing to be
	Old admirals who feel the wind and never put to sea.
	Now just like you,
	I' ve sailed my dreams like ships across the sea
	And some of them they' ve come on rocks and some faced mutiny
	And when they' re sunken one by one
	I' ll join that company
	Old admirals who feel the wind, and never put to sea.

	zuò cí : Stewart
	I can well recall the first time
	I ever put to sea,
	It was on the old " Calcutta" in eighteen fiftythree.
	I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be
	To make my way in sailing ships of the
	Royal Navy.
	By the time that
	I was twentyone
	I' d sailed the world around,
	Weathered storms in the
	China seas with the hatches battened down,
	And made my way by starlight off the coast of
	Newfoundland
	And dined on beer and herrings while the waves blew all around.
	I live in retirement now and through my window comes the sound
	Of seagulls and sets my mind remembering.
	The evening stars like memories sail far beyond the distant trees
	Way out across the open seas
	I hear them sing.
	Oh, the wooden ships they turned to iron and the iron ships to steel
	And shed their sails like autumn leaves with the turning of the wheel
	And I was given
	Captain' s rank, and soon took under me the proudest ship that ever sailed for
	Queen and country.
	Ah, the old queen she passed away with the newborn century
	And I received my calling up to the admiralty.
	The sands ran through the hourglass each day more rapidly
	As we watched the growing of the fleets of
	High Germany.
	So at last the
	Great War blazed
	I waited with the passing days a call to arms that never came, writing letters. " I may be old now in your eyes, but all my years have made me wise, You don' t see where the danger lies, oh call me back, call me back..."
	But the war, it ran its course they could find no use for me
	And I live in the country now, grandchildren on my knee
	And sometimes think in all this world the saddest thing to be
	Old admirals who feel the wind and never put to sea.
	Now just like you,
	I' ve sailed my dreams like ships across the sea
	And some of them they' ve come on rocks and some faced mutiny
	And when they' re sunken one by one
	I' ll join that company
	Old admirals who feel the wind, and never put to sea.

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