Summer Song #15- I Could Have Been A Sailor

I'm a happy man

I made my choice in life

I chose to settle down

I chose to take a wife

& I take pleasure in my quiet

Hearth & happy home

I never gave my heart

Its chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

& sailed the seven seas

The wind in my face all day

Can you taste the salty breeze?

I could have been a lover

Watchin' waves before me part

But I settled for safer harbors of my heart

I'm a lucky man

I'm the envy of my peers

I never ask for favors

& I never show my fears

Surrounded by too many friends

I am a one-man band

With all the trappings of a life

Lived second-hand

I could have been a sailor

Rollin' through the night

My sails before the wind

Where the star's my only light

I could have been a dreamer

But dreams just fall apart

I settled for safer harbors of my heart

& I take pleasure in my quiet

Hearth & happy home

I never gave my heart

Its chance to roam

I could have been a sailor

& sailed the seven seas

Is the wind in your face all day

Can you taste the salty breeze?

I could have been a dreamer

& watch the waves before me part

But I settled for safer harbors

Oh, sailor, sailed the seven seas

Is the wind in your face all day?

I can taste the salty breeze

Oh lover, I can see the waves before you part

Well, I settled for safer harbors of my heart,

Of my heart

Peter Allen

1979