High & Dry Lyrics

The song High & Dry is performed by Gordon Lightfoot in the album named Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 in the year 1990 .



With a lady like devotion
She sails the bitter ocean
If it wasn't for lovesick sailors
There'd be nothin' left but flotsam

Singin' why, oh my, is there a better man than I?
You find your way back home before you're lyin' high and dry
You find your way back home before you die

Her sails blow like bubbles
While ya sip your daily doubles
If she wasn't so fond of the weather
She might give the deckhands trouble

Singin' why, oh my, is there a better man than I?
You find your way back home before you're lyin' high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die

One day as I grew older
And I found I could not hold her
She took on a fine young skipper
Who soon run her up on a boulder

Singin' why, oh my, is there a better man than I?
You find your way back home before you're lyin' high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die

And now, the pleasures of the harbor
Don't include a lady barber
If it wasn't for long John Silver
All of us pirates would've been martyrs

Singin' why, oh my, is there a better man than I?
You find your way back home before you're lyin' high and dry
I hope you find your way back home before you die
High and dry

I hope you find your way back home before you die



Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold, Vol. 2

Oct 1990

  1. If It Should Please You
  2. Endless Wire
  3. Hangdog Hotel Room
  4. High & Dry
  5. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
  6. Christian Island
  7. All The Lovely Ladies
  8. Alberta Bound
  9. Cherokee Bend
  10. Triangle
  11. Shadows
  12. Make Way (For The Lady)
  13. Ghosts Of Cape Horn
  14. Baby Step Back
  15. It's Worth Believin'
  16. I'm Not Supposed To Care (LP Version)
  17. The Pony Man (Album Version)
  18. Race Among The Ruins (LP Version)

High & Dry