Michelle Shocked - Patcheye And Meg Lyrics
Michelle Shocked (Poly Gram Songs, Inc)Remembering back when I was a kid, I'd slip down to the docksTo watch the old men carving wood, watch the sailors tying knotsBut the thing I remember best was grey-haired old Patch-EyeAnd the stories that he'd tell me 'bout his younger days as we watched those ships go by hfillHe'd talk about his missing eye, he'd talk all about his wooden legBut he never talked about the old tattoo on his right arm that said ''Meg''He said he was captain of a pirate ship sailing seas both blue and greenThen he said that all pirate's got to have have a patch so as they can look real meanHe'd made the bad guys walk the plank, the pretty ladies he would saveAnd then he'd take the treasure from the ship and then he'd sink it to a watery graveHe'd talk about his missing eye, he'd talk about his wooden legBut he'd never talk about the old tattoo of brown-haired, blue-eyed Meg He told me a story 'bout his wooden leg as he sat there spinning yarnsOnce he lost it to a mamba snake, down in the AmazonAnother time it was way out west in a gunfight, or so he saidOh but that's all right boy, man's got to legs, you know he could have lost his headHe told me all about his missing eye, he told me all about his wooden legBut he took the story to the grave about the tattoo that said ''Meg'' He told me how he lost his eye and how he lost legBut he never told me how he lost the love of brown-haired, blue-eyed Meg
