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Sailors' grave

from Tales of Layton Rakes by Star Botherers

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If you're gonna call yourself folk punk - you have to have more than one nautical related song - poverty and grim choices go hand in hand...

lyrics

Too young to be a man
But he’s old enough to sail
Had a belly full of salt beef
Got a belly full of ale
Bound for lands uncharted, sailing the unknown
Navigating by the stars a thousand miles from home.
Pressed into a life running powder for the guns
It’s a better life to die at sea than dying in the slums
Better is this life for me
Better now to drown at sea
I won’t drown on land in poverty
A strange wind hits the sail from above there came a cry
The storm was born before us when thunder broke the sky
Half way to hell aboard that ship
They were halfway to hell when the black sky split
It’s a sailors grave for me
No angels only mermaids at the bottom of the sea
It’s a sailors grave for me
I’ll be drinking rum with black beard for eternity
The barrel man has Davey’s grip the water has awoke
It shakes the ribs and timbers and bones of the old salt
Prayers are lost upon the wind his grip becomes a choke
Now Davey Jones’ locker is pulling at the boat
Hear Davey play bandoneon across his knee
Nelson hear my shanty, I don’t care if you agree
There’s rum there by the gallon
Enough for all
was the sea that came to take us not the sirens call
Chorus

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from Tales of Layton Rakes, released December 10, 2021
Lyrics - A.Hawkins
Music - Star Botherers
Recorded-mixed-mastered and produced by J.Howe

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Star Botherers UK

Star Botherers - 5 piece band based in Warsop - Notts -

Folk, punk, social commentary -

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Debut Album 'Happy Angry' is available on Bandcamp and other digital platforms -

Latest album - ‘Tales of Layton Rakes’ - released
10th Dec - 2021 - available on all platforms
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