[Verse 1] Salt dries white on the rail tonight Your boots keep time where the gulls take flight A red cloth snaps from the weathered mast We spend our fear and we spend it fast [Pre-Chorus] Raise the lantern, count the tide Keep one hand on the rope beside When the dark rolls over the bay We choose the wind, we choose our way [Chorus] Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring Hey, haul away, hear the iron sing With a scar on the map and a coin in the flame We sail till the sea forgets our name Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring [Verse 2] Mara keeps watch from the cannon door Old Tom laughs at the distant shore Three brass bells and a barrel of rain A crooked moon on the windowpane [Pre-Chorus] Raise the lantern, count the tide Keep one hand on the rope beside When the dark rolls over the bay We choose the wind, we choose our way [Chorus] Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring Hey, haul away, hear the iron sing With a scar on the map and a coin in the flame We sail till the sea forgets our name Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring [Bridge] If I go down beneath black water Tell my brother, tell my daughter I kept the promise carved in oak I held the line when the masthead broke [Verse 3] Morning finds us past the reef Sun on the brass and salt on our teeth No golden crown, no governor's chain Just a full-stitched sail and a living name [Pre-Chorus] Raise the lantern, count the tide Keep one hand on the rope beside When the dark rolls over the bay We choose the wind, we choose our way [Final Chorus] Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring Hey, haul away, hear the iron sing With a scar on the map and a coin in the flame We sail till the sea forgets our name Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring Hey, haul away, let the whole deck ring We sail till the sea forgets our name
