Pill Sailor

A pit bull tattoo
One good eye of blue
Is wandering still
But what can you do

These ropes are all knotted and tangled round me
I’m a sailor who wandered a little too far from the sea

Did they raise up this child just to die
To stare for too long into the sky
Shirley Bassey’s from Tiger Bay
But I’ll spend my life down in Pill
They shut down the docks, thrown our lives on the rocks
But my good eye is wandering still

Past the pubs where I festered all day
Transporter bridge transport me away
These rope are all knotted and tangled around me
I’m a sailor who’s wandered a little too far from the sea

They passed in the channel great ships by the score
To carry out coal and carry in ore
At night these old sea legs were anxious to stray
They’d come from all over but never intended to stay
So tell me something I don’t know
And find me a skipper with somewhere to go

These rope are all knotted and tangled around me
I’m a sailor who’s wandered a little too far from the sea