Ocean Grace

Composer: Jay Clifford

 

Studio Recordings: 4-track recording / unknown band demo session
Releases: Jump, Little Children /  The Early Years Vol. I
Tablature: Tablature Archive
First Performance: unknown
Song Information: The version on Early Years was taken from 12/30/96 at the Dock Street Theatre.
Lyrical Transcription: jumplittlechildren.net - transcribed from Jump, Little Children release

The southwestern wind
It soon will blow again
Blowing steady at its pace
And I'm traveling at the measure
Of a lonely man's leisure
Sailing across the Ocean Grace

A heavy, heavy burden
On the last of my two dollars
Hidden in the neck of my guitar case
And I'm trying to make a pastime
Out of living off the last dime
Sailing across the Ocean Grace

And you can count the goodbyes
With the tears in my eyes
Rolling down this weathered face
With the pocket of a poor man
And the love of a woman
I'm sailing across the Ocean Grace

There's a cradle in the valley
Of the Appalachian mountains
Where the wood is split to crack in the fireplace
And the winter is a sheppard
And she calls me with a soft word
Sailing across the Ocean Grace

And the candle in the window
It flickers a reminder
The morning a sun will show its face
And a pally of the traveler
As in passing what he's after
Sailing across the Ocean Grace

And the name is in the paper
And it reads across the pages
A sailor lost at sea without a trace
And I'm itching away the hot hand
As I'm stepping off the dry land
Sailing across the Ocean Grace

And you can count the goodbyes
With the tears in my eyes
Rolling down this weathered face
With the pocket of a poor man
And the love of a woman
I'm sailing across the Ocean Grace