Grey Funnel Line
Maddy Prior & June Tabor
from the "Silly Sisters" Album
By Cyril Tawney
Parodied by Melissa Pinol in The Grey Flannel Lion by Cyril Tawney, copywright by Gwyneth Music, Limited  

Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea
The weary night never worries me
but the hardest time in a sailor's day
is to watch the sun as it dies away
It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line.
 
The finest ship that sailed the sea
is still a prison for the likes of me
But give me wings like Noah's dove
I'd fly up harbour to the girl I love.
It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line.
 
Oh lord if dreams were only real
I'd have my hands on that wooden wheele
and with all my heart I'd turn her 'round
and tell the boys that we're homeword bound
It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line.
 
I'll pass the time like some machine
until blue water turns to green
Then I'll dance on down that walk ashore
and sail the Grey Funnel Line no more
and sail the Grey Funnel Line no more
It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line.