The Voyage Home
Drowsy on the Sea Cat
Its engine silent dead
We sat in the gambling lounge
Tired aboard the Explorer
With its windows clean
We gathered across a table
Inside the ship on the Irish Sea
Floating from Dublin’s day trip
We leaned over our drinks
When mum spoke and the story fell out
That I was part Irish on my father’s side
He wasn’t proud and revealed to me
That I was part Welsh on my mother’s side
Born and bred in a northern trade town
Eleven English four Irish one Welsh
Sixteenths split far down the middle
Impossible dice and diced impossibly
Down the middle far split sixteenths
Welsh eleven Irish four English one
Born and bred in a northern trade town
That I was part Welsh on my mother’s side
She wasn’t proud and revealed to me
That I was part Irish on my father’s side
When dad spoke and the story fell out
We leaned over our drinks
Floating from Dublin’s day trip
Inside the ship on the Irish Sea
We gathered across a table
With its windows clean
Tired aboard the Explorer
We sat in the gambling lounge
Its engine silent dead
Drowsy on the Sea Cat.
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