Oh me name's Able Rodgers, a share man am IOn a three masted schooner from Twillingate IsleI've been the world over north, south, east, and westBut the middle of nowhere wheres' I likes it bestCHORUS:Where its wave over wave, sea over bowI'm as happy a man as the sea will allowTheres no other life for a sailor like meAnd to sail the salt sea boys, sail the seaThere's no other life but to sail the salt seaWell I leave my wife lonely ten months of the yearFor she built me a home and raised my children thereShe never come out to bid farewell to meOr ken why a sailor must sail the salt seaCHORUSThe work it is hard and the hours are longBut my spirit is willing, my back it is strongAnd when the works over the whisky will pourWe'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shoreI've sailed the world over for decades or moreAnd oft times I wonder what I do it forI dont know the answer its pleasure and painBut with life to live over I'd do it againCHORUS