Lyrics

World of trouble, world of worry
Carry on, carry on
Born to shoulder this heavy burden
Then you're gone, then you're gone
When it's done and you're departed
Like a bird, a bird that's flown
The spirit won't visit the bones
Under the stone

Well, my mother, my sweet mother
She left me when i was a child
And my father, lord, my father
Could not stop me from running wild
Now I'm a man, yes I'm a man
Forty years, fully grown
But the spirit won't visit the bones
Under the stone

I went running, I went running
through the night and the driving rain
Where a hundred prayers, a thousand needles
wont' stop the pain, won't stop the pain
nd as I came into this life, I would slip away alone
For the spirit won't visit the bones
Under the stone

When I die, when I die
Don't bury me, don't bury me
Just burn my body and throw the ashes
To the sea, the rolling sea
Through the darkness I will go sailing
Sailing home, sailing home
For the spirit can't visit the bones
Under the stone
The spirit won't visit the bones
Under the stone