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The dreadful sea was calm that day
Still and dark as one man’s heart
He paced the deck with a villain’s stride
Played the ship’s superintendent’s part
With stipend paid to tend poor girls
Deal out each day’s supplies
At night he showed his villain’s hand
Beneath his Superintendent’s guise

When he slapped Lizzy’s face and accused her of boldness
Said, “There’s more where they came if you don’t do as you told”
Lizzy swallowed her tears and resolved her own fate
If he did it again she would row back to shore in the lifeboat, The Lifeboat

As so began the tyrant’s reign
With a fist for each new day
He would punch a woman’s fine proud nose
Let it bleed until she’d faint
He’d complain about conditions
The tiresome duties to perform
He’d say, “It’s my misfortune to be on this vessel”
It was ours to be aboard

We’d beg the ship’s surgeon, “admonish this man”
But he’s just patch up the girl’s with his soft, useless hands
Some sought protection from a willing ship’s crew
Branded, “Dissolute wenches” for choosing to lie in their lifeboats,
Their Lifeboat

The rest of us wrote out our supplicant’s pleas
Placed them in bottle’s threw them into the sea
If the devil won’t take us and Jesus won’t come to our rescue
We fear we will die here so send us a lifeboat
A lifeboat

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from Voyage, released September 5, 2020
Vocals: Helen Begley
Vocal Harmonies: Penny Larkins
Guitar: Helen Begley
Fiddles: Sally Taylor and Carmen O'Brien
Concertina: Jamie Molloy
Whistle: Penelope Swales
Bodhran: Micheal Gribben
Written by Helen Begley
Recorded, mixed and co-produced by Lachlan Wooden at Sing Sing Studios
Mastered by Ross Cockle at Sing Sing Studios
Album artwork: Adrian Wood

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