©
1988 Jim Stewart CAPAC
From the Marco Polo Suite (also available from Timberhead Music.) (GB)
Where the Marsh Creek
waters meet Courtenay Bay
Heave her round and let
her fly
At James Smith's yard her
keel did lay
There's no ship here can
match her
She was launched with a
groan and a thud
She's like a demon sailing
by
She stuck two weeks in the
March creek mud
There's no ship here can
catch her
Chorus:
Liverpool in fifteen days, the seven seas her name will praise
Wind in her hair and her sails unfurled, she's the fastest ship
in all the world
And her name is Marco Polo
Her keel's all bent,
she'll never sail
James Smith's hopes are
doomed to fail
She's felt the wrath of
jeers and scorn
And through the pain the
legend's born
To the Blackball line she
soon was sold
Australia bound in search
of gold
She was ruled with an iron
hand
When Bully Forbes was in
command
Sixty-eight days to
Melbourne town
The waves will echo her
renown
She's beating packets run
by steam
From James Smith's wish to
St. John's dream
For thirty-two years she
ran the tide
On Cavendish shoal she
finally died
But dreams are much too
hard to kill
For the Marco
Polo's living still.
Marco Polo is recorded on the album Language of the Heart and is part of the Jim Stewart album Marco Polo Suite