Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_life-on-the-ocean-wave_folkraft-country-dance-orch-pete-seeger_gbia0025272b
https://archive.org/details/78_life-on-the-ocean-wave_folkraft-country-dance-orch-pete-seeger_gbia0025401b
https://archive.org/details/78_life-on-the-ocean-wave_ford-orchestra-mr-mrs-henry-ford_gbia0024764bPublication Date
1838
Lyrics
A life on the ocean wave
A home on the rolling deep
Where the scatter'd waters rave
And the winds reveal their keep
Like an eagle cag'd I pine
On this dull unchanging shore
Oh give me the flashing brine
The spray and the tempest's roar
A life on the ocean wave
A home on the rolling deep
Where the scatter'd waters rave
And the winds reveal their keep
The winds! The winds! The winds their revels keep
The winds! The winds! The winds their revels keep
Once more on the deck I stand
Of my own swift gliding craft
Set sail! Farewell to the land
The gale follows fair abaft
Of my own swift gliding craft
Set sail! Farewell to the land
The gale follows fair abaft
We shoot through the sparkling foam
Like an ocean bird set free
Like the ocean bird our home
We'll find far out on the sea
A life on the ocean wave
A home on the rolling deep
Where the scatter'd waters rave
And the winds reveal their keep
The winds! The winds! The winds their revels keep
The winds! The winds! The winds their revels keep
The land is no longer in view
The clouds have begun to frown
But with a stout vessel and crew
We'll say, let the storm come down
And the song of our hearts shall be
While the winds and the waters rave
A life on the heaving sea
A home on the bounding wave
A life on the ocean wave
A home on the rolling deep
Where the scatter'd waters rave
And the winds their revels keep
Recommended Citation
Russell, Henry, "Life on the Ocean Wave" (1838). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 320.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/320
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Fourth Edition
A Life on the Ocean Wave
Favorite song sung by Mr. H. Russell & Mr. Seguin
The words by Epes Sargent ; the music composed and dedicated to Joseph B. Green Esq, of Columbus Geo. by Henry Russell.
New York. Published by Hewitt & Jaques 239 Broadway
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