Wave Over Wave

Oh me name Able Rogers a share man am I
 On a three-masted scooner from Twilingate Isle
 I've been the world over North, South, East and West
 But the middle of nowhere's where I likes it best
 Where it's wave over wave sea over bow
 I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
 There's no other life for a sailor like me
 Than to sail the salt sea boys to sail the sea
 There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
 Well I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
 For she built me a home and raised my children there
 She never come out to bid farewell to me
 Or can why a sailor must sail the salt sea
 Where it's wave over wave sea over bow
 I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
 There's no other life for a sailor like me
 Than to sail the salt sea boys to sail the sea
 There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
 Oh the work it is hard and the hours are long
 But my spirit is willing my back it is strong
 And when the works over the whisky will pour
 We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore
 I've sailed the world over for decades or more
 And oft times I wonder what I do it for
 I don't know the answer it's pleasure and pain
 But with life to live over I'd do it again
 Where it's wave over wave sea over bow
 I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
 There's no other life for a sailor like me
 Than to sail the salt sea boys to sail the sea
 Where it's wave over wave sea over bow
 I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
 There's no other life for a sailor like me
 Than to sail the salt sea boys to sail the sea
 There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
 Ohh ohhhh