Tradycyjne - A Life On the Ocean Wave

A life on the ocean wave!
A home on the rolling deep!
|: Where the scatter'd waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep! :|
Like an eagle cag'd I pine,
On this dull unchanging shore,
Oh! give me the flashing brine,
The spray and the tempest's roar,

A life on the ocean wave!
A home on the rolling deep!
Where the scatter'd waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep,
|: The winds, the winds
The winds their revels keep! :|

Once more on the deck I stand
Of my own swift gliding craft,
|: Set sail! farewell to the land,
The gale follows fair abaft. :|
We shoot thro' the sparkling foam,
Like an ocean-bird set free,
Like the ocean-bird, our home
We'll find far out on the sea!
A life on the ocean wave...

The land is no longer in view,
The clouds have begun to frown,
|: But with a stout vessel and crew
We'll say, let the storm come down! :|
And the song of our hearts shall be
While the winds and the waters rave,
A life on the heaving sea!
A home on the bounding wave!
A life on the ocean wave...