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Queen Mary

from When the music ends by John Meed

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We went down to the Solent sound
My family and me
To see my aunt and uncle America-bound
On board the Queen Mary
She was the finest ship afloat
With two swimming pools and a barber
And my dad said ‘Let’s get a rowing boat
Chase her out the harbour’

My Grandad took the starboard oar
And my father took the other
We’d have made a handsome coxless four
If I’d have had a little brother
At first we matched her stroke for stroke
And we rowed with all our might
Then those tugboats slipped their ropes
And she sailed out of sight

It could have been a family disaster
If we’d have rowed just a little faster
A hidden rock or a lump of wreckage
Would have sunk the whole male lineage
There’d have been no more Meeds

Sometimes in the night
I have a dream
I see that liner shining bright
And she’s sailing out to sea
And though I row with all my strength
I row my boat alone
I just wake up soaking wet
And that liner’s gone

And my aunt and uncle they stayed in America
And they praise the Lord up in Montana
And the Queen Mary she’s in Southern California
She’s a floating hotel
No more life on the ocean
No more sailing the seven seas
I guess that’s what happens to childhood dreams

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from When the music ends, released March 12, 2009
John Meed: Guitar and vocals
Lester Lloyd-Reason: Lead guitar

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John Meed Cambridge

John Meed is a singer-songwriter who lives in Cambridge, UK, and writes and performs in the folk and acoustic traditions. His songwriting has been compared to that of Al Stewart, Leonard Cohen, Christy Moore, Jacques Brel and Richard Thompson. He has released eight albums and his music has been played on national and local radio. See johnmeed.net. ... more

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