Well, I coughed and I choked and I tasted the sea
I looked over the sands, there was no one but me
And I knew that the might of the sea had finished me
And I wished that I’d drowned in the storm.
This is the post-Sandy Denny/Richard Thompson Fairport Convention, and I first heard them play this at the late lamented Chestnut Cabaret sometime in the ’80s. I’m just a sucker for sad sea songs:
