My Ship (From 'Ballads For Night People') - June Christy

My ship has sails that are made of silk

The decks are trimmed with gold

And of jam and spice there’s a paradise in the hold

My ship’s aglow with a million pearls

And rubies fill each bin

The sun sits high in a sapphire sky when my ship comes in

I can wait the years

Till it appears

One fine day one spring

But the pearls and such

They won’t mean much if there’s missing just one thing

I do not care if that day arrives

That dream need never be

If the ship I sing doesn’t also bring

My own true love to me

If the ship I sing doesn’t also bring my own true love to me