DESCRIPTION:
Empty Hats perform the sea song "Wave Over Wave" at the Camelot Days Medieval Festival, November15, 2009, at Topeekeegee Yugnee Park in Hollywood, Florida. Featuring Carl Asch (aka Giacomo the Jester) on lead vocals and guitar, Lynda Kavy (aka Looney Lucy) on bodhran with supporting vocals, Vicki Scuteri (aka Lady Victoria) on violin and supporting vocals, and Gary Mazzu (aka Demitri) on guitar and supporting vocals.

"Wave Over Wave" was originally composed by Newfoundland folk singer Jim Payne with Jannis Spence.

Lyrics:

Wave Over Wave
(Jim Payne)

Me name's Able Rogers, a shareman am I
On a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle
I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west
But the middle of nowhere's where I like it best

chorus:
Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
There's no other life for a sailor like me
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea

The work it is hard and the hours are long
My spirit is willing, my back it is strong
And when the work's over then whiskey we'll pour
We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore

(chorus)

I'd leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
She made me a home and raised my children dear
But she'd never come out to bid farewell to me
Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea

(chorus)

I've sailed the wide oceans four decades or more
And ofttimes I've wondered what I do it for
I don't know the answer, it's pleasure and pain
With life to live over, I'd do it again