Harbor of Ash

[Intro] [Verse 1] The harbor rope is wet with rain Your scarf is folded in my hand We leave before the bells complain And carry home across the sand [Verse 2] A cedar chest, a copper key Three names carved underneath the rail The gulls grow small behind the lee The morning lifts our patched-up sail [Chorus] Row softly, brothers, sisters near Let every oar remember shore Though distance takes the words we hear We are the ones we sailed here for [Verse 3] My mother’s bread, your father’s tune Are tucked beside the captain’s chart The tide turns silver under moon And makes one hearth of every heart [Bridge] If winter finds us far from land If salt has whitened coat and hair Place one warm hand in another hand And know the absent still are there [Chorus] Row softly, brothers, sisters near Let every oar remember shore Though distance takes the words we hear We are the ones we sailed here for [Outro] The harbor rope is wet with rain Yet home moves with us through the waves