[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:11.05]All day we fought [00:12.29]The tides between the North [00:14.72]Head and the South [00:17.05]All day we hauled [00:18.37]The frozen sheets to scape the [00:20.96]Storms wet mouth [00:23.34]All day as cold as charity [00:26.35]In bitter pain and [00:27.53]Dread [00:29.32]For very life and nature [00:32.33]We tacked from head [00:35.31]To head [01:05.94]We gave the South a wider berth [01:08.87]For there the [01:09.61]Tide race roared; [01:11.90]But every tack we made [01:13.28]We brought the North [01:15.32]Head close aboard: [01:17.73]We saw the cliffs and [01:19.10]Houses and the breakers [01:21.44]Running high [01:23.81]And the coastguard in his garden [01:26.77]His glass [01:27.58]Against his eye [01:42.27]The frost was on the village [01:44.09]Roofs as white as [01:45.99]Ocean foam; [01:48.25]The good red fi res [01:49.41]Were burning bright in every [01:51.66]Long shore home; [01:54.29]The windows sparkled [01:55.14]Clear and the chimneys [01:57.83]Volleyed out; [01:59.94]And I vow we sniffed [02:01.51]The victuals as the vessel [02:03.89]Went about [02:18.46]The bells upon the [02:19.51]Church were rung with a [02:21.83]Mighty jovial cheer; [02:24.21]For its just that [02:25.10]I should tell you how of all days [02:28.31]In the year [02:30.56]This day of our adversity [02:33.35]Was blessed Christmas [02:34.70]Morn [02:36.49]And the house above the [02:37.67]Coastguards was the [02:39.97]House where I was born [03:15.72]And well I knew the talk they had [03:18.70]The talk that [03:19.45]Was of me [03:21.55]Of the shadow on the [03:22.76]Household and the son that [03:25.42]Went to sea; [03:27.87]And  oh  the wicked fool I seemed [03:30.79]In every kind [03:31.79]Of way [03:33.55]To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed [03:37.33]Christmas Day