Fairport Convention - Spanish Main lyrics

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Fairport Convention - Spanish Main lyrics

I have a tale of deceit and anger How love's young hope can twist bitterly A girl who [Incomprehensible] and her handsome sailor Their dreams of livin' across the sea Amelia walked down along the harbor Her dainty step on the cobbled street She smiled too sweet at the handsome sailors Till young guns laid, as she chanced to be And he fell in love with her so completely He could think of nothing for weeks to come And one time held her, so indiscreetly Her lips they parted in the setting sun Now, I have to leave on the flagship Lester For gold and honor I hope to gain But you have my heart while the sea's in motion And I am sailin' on the Spanish Main If you will wait and attend the weather My own intentions I will make plain For us to wed and to sail together And make our home across the Spanish Main She held his hand like she'd held no other And she gazed with longin' into his eyes But her heart held tight to it's own dark secret Which, if he knew it he would sure despise For she given her love to her own landlord In who's cabin she'd hoped to abide And he'd seen her meet with this handsome sailor Steal a kiss on the evening tide And it burned like a fire inside him And a towering rage now around him grew He shouted up to the stormy heavens He vowed he'd find them both and burn them through He tracked them down where the ship was lying The cold steel flashed with a glittering pain Their arms and twines they lay still and dying Cut short their promise of the Spanish Main