The Message

I'm going to dance you round the floor

Drink you under the tables

Going to take that last flight home

To Balivanich in the month of June

Go racing up the south ford

Turning midnight in the cars

Waiting up late with the Greenock girls

Single every song that made us

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on the ocean

It says Mary please don't go

We're going to lie down on the grass

Your lipstick in the clover

Going the marry Mary in the summertime

The Atlantic round our shoulders

Skies are dawning ound the Langass Barpa

Stopped off at the white bridge waters

It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles

A rise of larksong fills the morning

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on the ocean

Lies our fear should we grow old

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

It says Mary please don't go

And when we've wasted all our young years

Who's to say we never tried

To live fast and honour our pledges

Here we vowed to stay young till we die

We drank the life from the last of the bottle

We wrote our message out like a prayer

Then we threw away the message with all our hearts

Then we watched our lives disappear

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that great beyond

Lies our fear should we grow old

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

It says Mary please don't go