09 Chesapeake Bay (original mix good for folk)

The first born daughter of a fisherman’s wife
Pisces ruled the sky
She’d walk on the beaches, sail on the bay
Watch the seagulls fly
She heard them seagulls cry

Solomon’s Isle on the Chesapeake Bay
Twenty years ago
I fell in love and I married that girl
Soon she began to show
And her heart began to glow

A baby girl and couple of boys
Raised them three kids well
Taught ‘em how to fiddle and sail
Raise a glass and ring the bell
Raise a glass and ring the bell

But the whiskey grabbed a hold of me
Took me on a hurricane ride
Wound up lying in the devil’s bed
And I thought my soul had died
Nothing left inside

You can’t navigate without a guiding star
My ship’s gone adrift
I could not see ’til the fog did lift
That I’d lost my greatest gift
Oh, I’d lost my greatest gift

Lord, I was blind to what I had
I let it slip away
Seven years sober and I can’t go back
To the life on the Chesapeake Bay
Seven years sober and I’ll not go back
To the life on the Chesapeake Bay