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Christopher Grundy
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The Fisherman's Daughter
Stars growing dim by the lakeside
huddled up close to the fire
the fish weren't biting as much as the cold was
and all of us bitter and tired,
then out from the mist and the shadows
and so pale with the moon on her skin
up from the water, my own lovely daughter
she looked us all over and grinned
she said, 'You're scaring the fish with those long sullen faces
lighten up or you won't stand a chance
I have been to the ball and I've seen my sweet Jesus
and all that he wants you to do
is dance.'
She said, 'Dance with the lonely, dance with the lost
dance with the ones whom to dance with will cost you
and when you're worn out from the weight of that cross
just dance
gently and slowly, dance.'
The boys they were reaching for whiskey
the tears they were burning my eyes
seven hard years since we'd stood on that shoreline
cursing the waves and the skies
She said, 'Dad, are you sure you still love me?'
I said, 'Darling, you know that I do.
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a day never goes by that I don't see your eyes
there in the water's deep blue.'
She said, 'Then dance with the hungry, the naked and blind
with the ones who are chained in their body or mind
go and dance even when you know they're bound to fall
and when you know that they have no legs at all.'
She said, 'Dance with the lonely, dance with the lost
dance with the ones whom to dance with will cost you
and when you're worn out from the weight of that cross
just dance
gently and slowly, dance.'
Then she picked up my sandwich and tore it in half
started passing it 'round and I laughed and I laughed
'cause my eyes they were opened and my feet they were light
and I could have danced all night
She said, 'Dance with the lonely, dance with the lost
dance with the ones whom to dance with will cost you
and when you're worn out from the weight of that cross
just dance
gently and slowly, dance
in somebody's arms, maybe, dance
dance if you love me, dance.'
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