Chilling Out
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Track 6
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CO 06 My grandfather was an émigré
Intro as instrumental verse type 1
My grandfather was an emigre
He reached for the unknown
A citizen of the USA
But he gave it up and shipped back home
A passage out to Baltimore
To forge a future there
Just led to a revolving door
No respite from despair
What was it drove him back
To the shores that he'd foresworn
To try another tack
Long before his son was born
My grandfather was an emigrant
Searching for some place to be
Got drawn into a covenant
With life upon the sea
If he'd not come back then I guess that I'd1 be an American
Well maybe not me but someone with a similar genetics
What would they want with an English septuagenarian
Could I claim citizenship now, d’you think I'd get it
instumental
I could have been a crew cut jock though maybe that idea’s a little dippy
there are so many different things controlled the way I am
Maybe a business suit or else a full blown hippy
Or maybe I got drafted and died in the war in Vietnam
But instead he chose to return
to the home of his birth
I wonder the lessons he learned
What family ties are worth
Home to a new family
And a wife fine and beguiling
And the happiness to see
When Irish eyes are smiling
My grandfather was an emigrant
Searching for some place to be
Got drawn into a covenant
With life upon the sea Upon the sea…. Upon the sea
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