Tom Flannery - Coaster lyrics

I was born on the coast One too many children in a family of ghosts Where my father worked the mines Oh my mother died each time She heard the thunder roll from the coal black earth I grew up on my own With my father pa**ed away and my brothers fully grown And they worked way underground Just like every man in town And they told me of the day It would be my turn But my window looked out on the harbour I could see the ships as they'd come in to take a load Oh it made me want to wander It finally drove me to the road Oh-ho I wandered away Oh-ho I'll not forget that day I would cease my wandering if I could go back home But if I could go back home I'd be alone Sometimes deep in the night When I'm standing all alone Thinking about my life, well their voices Like the wind across the sea And I know I had no choice, what I'd done was right But my window looked out on the harbour I could see the ships as they'd come in to take a load Oh it made me want to wander It finally drove me to the road Oh-ho I wandered away Oh-ho I'll not forget that day I would cease my wandering if I could go back home But if I could go back home I'd be alone But if I could go back home I'd be alone But if I could go back home I'd be alone