J. P. Cormier - The Teazer lyrics

My name is Horton Mason and I call the sea my home I've touched the golden morning in the harbour town I've roamed Now the winds of time are waiting for their dues outside my door They know I've cheated d**h one time before It was early Friday morning in the winter we set sail With Freddie Thorn and Myron Lennox hard against the rails With the fickle winds of January smooth against her bow It seems that I can almost feel them now But there's no one left on the Teazer now Though her ragged sails trap the harbour gales And there's only me who has lived to tell Why her spirit haunts these waters at the close of day We were proud upon the Teazer, of her name and of her grace I was twenty years her captain and old Thorny was my mate But Lennox was a family man who'd never sailed before Five children and a wife he left ashore Brown's Bank was the first place that our nets would touch the sea And looking from the wheelhouse I saw Lennox smile at me But then the winds broke loose, straight from hell they must have came And I heard Lennox screaming out my name Yeah there's no one left on the Teazer now Though her ragged sails trap the harbour gales And there's only me who has lived to tell Why her spirit haunts these waters at the close of day I felt just like a dead man as the first wave crossed her bow And as the rigging started freezing I started wondering how We would ever live to see again the morning harbour tide And Lennox threw the dory over side Well I rushed down from the wheelhouse as Lennox made his dive But by the time he hit the wash the dory was capsized With nothing left to cling to he met my tortured gaze Then Lennox slowly slipped beneath the waves Yeah there's no one left on the Teazer now Though her ragged sails trap the harbour gales And it's only me who has lived to tell Why her spirit haunts these waters at the close of day Well I stumbled to the port side where the other dory lay And I found old Freddy Thorn there with the thing almost away But then the ocean rang again with murder in her song And I looked again and Freddy Thorn was gone That's exactly how it happened and until my dying day I'll never know why I was spared and the others swept away I'll never know why I was spared and the others swept away Now the Teazer's drifting empty with d**h beneath her keel Drifting empty with d**h beneath her keel And the souls of those who sailed her at the wheel And the souls of those who sailed her at the wheel 'Cause there's no one left on the Teazer now Though her ragged sails trap the harbour gales And there's only me who has lived to tell Why her spirit haunts these waters Why her spirit haunts these waters