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1. Oh me name's Able Rodgers, a share man am I
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   On a three masted schooner from Twillingate Isle
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   I've been the world over north, south, east, and west
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   But the middle of nowhere's where I likes it best 

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

2. Well I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
   For she built me a home and raised my children there
   She never come out to bid farewell to me
   Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea 

R: Where its wave... 

3. Ah, the work it is hard and the hours are long
   But my spirit is willing, my back it is strong 
   And when the works over the whisky will pour
   We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore 
   
4. I've sailed the world over for decades or more
   And oft' times I wonder what I do it for
   I don't know the answer its pleasure and pain
   But with life to live over I'd do it again 

R: Where its wave... (2x)