I was born on the coast   One too many children in a family of ghosts   Where my father worked the mines   Oh my mother died each time   She heard the thunder roll from the coal black earth   I grew up on my own   With my father passed away and my brothers fully grown   And they worked way underground   Just like every man in town   And they told me of the day It would be my turn   But my window looked out on the harbour   I could see the ships as they'd come in to take a load   Oh it made me want to wander   It finally drove me to the road   Oh-ho I wandered away   Oh-ho I'll not forget that day   I would cease my wandering if I could go back home   But if I could go back home I'd be alone      Sometimes deep in the night   When I'm standing all alone   Thinking about my life, well their voices   Like the wind across the sea   And I know I had no choice, what I'd done was right   But my window looked out on the harbour   I could see the ships as they'd come in to take a load   Oh it made me want to wander   It finally drove me to the road   Oh-ho I wandered away   Oh-ho I'll not forget that day   I would cease my wandering if I could go back home   But if I could go back home I'd be alone   But if I could go back home I'd be alone   But if I could go back home I'd be alone