The Reach

[00:34.86] It`s Maine...

[00:35.87] And it`s Autumn

[00:37.62] The birches have just begun turning

[00:45.94] It`s life and it`s dying

[00:48.95] The lobstermen`s boats come returning

[00:57.77] With the catch of they day in their holds

[01:03.56] and the young boys cold and complaining

[01:09.58] The fog meets the beaches and out on

[01:13.85] the Reach it is raining --

[01:27.94] It`s father and son

[01:29.45] It`s the way it`s been done since the old days

[01:38.74] It`s hauling by hand ten miles out

[01:42.51] from the land where their chow waits

[01:50.31] All the days get so lonely and long

[01:56.10] and seas grow so stormy and strong but

[02:02.12] The Reach will sing welcome as homeward

[02:06.65] they hurry along.

[02:12.17] And the morning will blow away

[02:17.70] As the waves crash and fall

[02:23.74] And the Reach like a siren sings

[02:29.51] as she beckons and calls

[02:35.05] As the coastline recedes from view

[02:40.84] And the seas swell and roll

[02:46.61] I will take from the Reach

[02:49.39] all that she has to teach

[02:52.90] To the depths of my soul --

[03:23.09] The wind brings a chill

[03:24.86] There`s a frost on the sill in the morning

[03:33.91] It creeps through the door

[03:36.16] At the edge of the shore

[03:39.18] ice is forming

[03:45.46] Soon the northers will bluster and blow

[03:50.99] And the woods will be whitened

[03:55.01] with snowfall

[03:57.27] And the Reach will lie frozen

[04:00.04] for the lost and unchosen to row --

[04:07.34] And the morning will blow away

[04:12.87] As the waves crash and fall

[04:18.64] And the Reach like a siren sings

[04:24.44] as she beckons and calls

[04:29.96] As the coastline recedes from view

[04:35.74] And the seas swell and roll

[04:41.53] I will take from the Reach

[04:45.55] all that she has to teach

[04:47.06] To the depths of my soul --