"The Tinker And The Crab" lyrics - DONOVAN
On the windy beach
The sun is shining through with weather fair
White horses riding
On the sea pasture onto the sand
Over the Dunes
Came a travelling man
Sack on back
Wild flowers in his hand
Old rusty cans
Pebbles 'bedded in the sand stand and stare
Scratching his beard
Through the grass he steered his sandy shoe
Disappearing in the dips
Pondering and wandering along
Nice as you please
Comes the travelling man
Drinking a bottle
Of milk in his hand
Speaking to no one
In particular but happily
Down where young gulls dance
Driftwood lying, drying for the fire
Yellow beak and sleek
Now the gulls are crying, flying higher
Out from the sea
Came a little green crab
Taking the sun
The morning being very drab
Old rusty cans
Pebbles 'bedded in the sand stand and stare
The tinker and the crab
The tinker and the crab
The tinker and the crab
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- Mad John's Escape
- Skip-A-Long Sam
- Sun
- There Was A Time
- Oh Gosh
- Little Boy In Corduroy
- Under The Greenwood Tree
- The Land Of Doesn't Have To Be
- Someone Singing
- Song Of The Naturalist's Wife
- The Enchanted Gypsy
- Voyage Into The Golden Screen
- Isle Of Islay
- The Mandolin Man And His Secret
- Lay Of The Last Tinker
- The Tinker And The Crab
- Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
- The Lullaby Of Spring
- The Magpie
- Starfish-On-The-Toast
- Epistle To Derroll