The Louvin Brothers - A Seaman's Girl lyrics

She stands all alone on the seashore As the waves plain near her feet Looking over the distant horizon At a ship in this silent retreat As a sad moon shines down upon her She whispers a fond farewell To the man she loves aboard the ship For she's a seaman's girl A seaman's girl lives a life that is lonely While her man is gone out to sea The smile that she wears as she's seeing him on Seems to hide her fuse and misery And a love that she bears for her seafaring man Will live on for evermore Though the life beloved gives on the sea And her lives on the shore True is the love that is burning In the heart of a seaman's girl It's the waiting gain but she never complain She wouldn't trade him for all of this world Her tears she hides from her seaman Though they may never kiss nomore While he meets with the dangers of a deep rolling sea A seaman's girl must wait on the shore