She goes out on the widow walk To search the sea for him She stares across the sea And pray for safe return Twenty years of sorrowful chaste What price hear love was lost She'd wait till time had claimed all she was Truth was he was not lost at all He lived across the sea New wife and new little child He lived in luxury I grew and watched my mother die I wept for my mother's tears And pain, yes I will know his pain For lies and wasted years [Solo: Whalen] Now a man and I did not seek him out I went across the sea When he looked down into my eyes He knew it was death he'd seen And pain, yes I will know his pain For lies and wasted years And death, yes I did know his death His last breath was screamed She goes out on the widow walk