Escrita por Al Stewart, foi gravada em janeiro de 1976 e lançada no disco Year of the cat, o sétimo dele, em 17 de julho de 1976. Foi produzida por Alan Parsons. Fala sobre um marinheiro do período Elizabetiano, que viveu entre 1542 e 1591. Al Stewart cantou, tocou guitarra e teclados. Tim Renwick tocou guitarra. Peter Wood tocou teclado. Don Lobster tocou teclados. George Ford tocou baixo. Stuart Elliott tocou bateria e percussão. Bobby Bruce tocou violino. Marion Driscoll tocou triangulo. Phil Kenzie tocou sax alto. Graham Smith tocou gaita. David Pack, John Perry, Tony Rivers e Stuart Calver fizeram backing vocals.
A letra:
Go
and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on the turn
It's time to
haul the anchor up and leave the land astern
We'll be gone before
the dawn returns
Like voices on the wind.
Go and tell Lord Grenville that our
dreams have run aground
There's nothing here to keep us in this
shanty town
None of us are caring where we're bound
Like voices
on the wind
And come the day you'll hear them
saying
"They're throwing it all away"
Nothing more to
say
Just throwing it all away
Go and fetch the captain's log and tear
the pages out
We're on our way to nowhere now, can't bring the
helm about
None of us are left in any doubt
We won't be back
again
Send a message to the fleet, they'll
search for us in vain
We won't be there among the reaches of the
Spanish Main
Tell the ones we left home not to wait
We won't be back again.
(Won't be
back again...)
And come the day you'll hear them
saying
"They're throwing it all away"
Nothing more to
say
Just throwing it all away
Our time is just a point along a
line
That runs forever with no end
I never thought that we
would come to find
Ourselves upon these rocks again
Oh no...
Go and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on the turn
A versão de Al Stewart:
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