The Sea Rose - The Handsome Family

Wrapped in the weeds of the shallows.

In the moon’s drifting light.

Calling from the cold, wet rocks, the sea rose of the low tides

A passing ship along the coast heard her sadly calling and turned its sails to

the sound, the rose, the sea

Rose calling

In the waves, the waves she’s calling

Lonely, lonely, my heart is dark the rocks lie cold beneath me.

Come closer,

closer darling one.

We’ll marry in the sea weed

On the passing ship, a sailor boy, he heard the sea rose calling and from the

bow he dove on down to the waves, the waves, falling

The waves, the waves were falling

Come, come darling boy into my arms awaiting.

Down, down in the cold,

dark sea I’m waiting here to love you

To her arms, her lovely arms, the currents pulled him splashing,

but her body was only foaming waves and her voice just water rushing

In the waves the sea rose falling.

In the waves, the waves, my darling.

The waves, the sea rose calling