There’s a sea-way somewhere where all day long Is the hushed susurrus of the sea, The mewing of the skuas, and the sailor’s song, And the wind’s cry calling me. There’s a haven somewhere where the quiet of the bay Is troubled with the shifting tide, Where the gulls are flying, crying in the bright white spray, And the tan-sailed schooners ride.
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Confirmed with Salt-Water Ballads by John Masefield, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915, page 75.
Text Authorship:
- by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), no title, appears in Salt Water Ballads, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "There's A Sea-Way", op. 8 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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