Song of the Siren
Words and music by Samantha Moore and Lisa Theriot
© 2005 Raven Boy Music

Am                              G                                      capo 1
Some say her eyes are violet blue
       F                      G
Her hair as black as night
       Am                     G
And others swear her eyes are green
       C                                 G
Her locks would shame the light
         Am              Em     Am             
Some say she is a fearful hag
      C                    G
A fiend without a soul
         Am         G                      Am            E
If her will you tame you’ll have wealth and fame
            Am        G         Am
But her will may take its toll

                     F                   E
Chorus:   No fairer mistress man can find
                     Am                      G
              No crueler could there be
                      Am      G             Am     E
              I am sailing still and I’ll sail until
                     Am     G         Am
              The Siren calls for me.

I was born a fisher’s son
But a fisher I’d not be
Each year that passed I heard more clear
The Siren call to me
One day I signed to crew a ship
And said farewell to land
I sailed far and near with no thought of fear
Hearing only her command.
CH

In weather fine the men are glad,
“We sail with God,” they say
But when the raging storm comes on
How differently they pray
The eyes of every crewman bold
Betray his thoughts to me
That he wonders well whether o’er the swell
With God or the Devil sails he.

CH

We toast the voyage, foul or fair,
In porter and in ale
Of good men’s lives the Witch cut short
We tell a mournful tale
      Am      G            Am      G
And I may sail in the raging gale
Or shelter in the lee
But my fate is cast ‘til the day at last
When the siren calls for me.

CH

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