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NEVER WEATHERBEATEN SAIL Lead vocal and guitar: Richard Fiddle: Peter

John Conolly's reworking of an old mariner's hymn.

LYRICS:

Never weather-beaten sail more willing came to shore
Never weary mariner did crave for harbour more
Then my troubled spirit longs to fly from out my weary breast
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest

Ever blooming are the joys of heaven's high paradise
Where no wild wind's thunderous noise, nor storm clouds dim the skies
Glory then, the sun outshines, whose beams are seen but by the blessed
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest

Never weather-beaten sail more willing came to shore
Never weary mariner did crave for harbour more
Then my troubled spirit longs to fly from out my weary breast
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest
Still the waters, still the waters
Still the waters, dearest Lord, and take my soul to rest

NOTES:

Learned from the singing of John Connolly, this old mariner's hymn appeared in Thomas Campion's First Book of Ayres in 1613. John recorded the song on his album Ranter's Wharf. In the liner notes to that recording John says "The first verse was full of wonderful maritime imagery but, alas, it had all disappeared from the more seriously religious second verse, so I took the liberty of putting it back …"