sit down young children on my sandy shore - i am the deep blue sea i have a story for every boy and girl - who will listen to me you see, i was born in a thunderstorm and as a raindrop i felt so free 'til i was taken from the river i loved - she was like a mother to me it's true my waters are fraught with danger - but i need you to believe that i have never hurt an honest sailor - or battered your home with my seas that's from the north wind, that's from the south wind, that's from the west and the east they trespass on me - they raise my fury - they make me foam and they make me boil i have a friend one that i love her name is the moon she holds me close when she gets thirsty i let her drink when morning comes i lay her back down to sleep you may ask ,child, how old i am - well i'm as old as there is time anchors have scarred my deep blue heart and the whalemen robbed me blind end times are comin' - i will give up all these souls that i have hid and in the firelight i will return to the place i did begin