A Ship Without A Sail 1929 "Heads Up!"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Aug 2007
2007

[He:] I don't know what day it is,
or if it's dark or fair;
some how, that's just the way it is,
and I don't really care.
I go to this or that place,
I seem alive and well,
my head is just a hat place,
my breast an empty shell!
And I've a faded dream to sell.

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me,
when there's no love to hold my love?
Why is my heart so frail,
like a ship without a sail?
Out on the ocean,
sailors can use a chart;
I'm on the ocean guided
by just a lonely heart,
Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me
when there's no hand to hold my hand.
Life is a loveless tale
for a ship without a sail.

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me,
when there's no love to hold my love?
Why is my heart so frail,
like a ship without a sail?
Out on the ocean,
sailors can use a chart;
I'm on the ocean guided
by just a lonely heart,
Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me
when there's no hand to hold my hand.
Life is a loveless tale
for a ship without a sail.

[She:] When love leaves you all alone,
you're living in the past;
Then you feel so small alone
and oh! the world seems vast.
You tell your grief to no girls,
You never make it known;
your smile is like a show girl's,
your laugh a hollow tone.
And then your little heart's a stone.

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me,
when there's no love to hold my love?
Why is my heart so frail,
like a ship without a sail?
Out on the ocean,
sailors can use a chart;
I'm on the ocean guided
by just a lonely heart,
Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me
when there's no hand to hold my hand.
Life is a loveless tale
for a ship without a sail.

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me,
when there's no love to hold my love?
Why is my heart so frail,
like a ship without a sail?
Out on the ocean,
sailors can use a chart;
I'm on the ocean guided
by just a lonely heart,
Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me
when there's no hand to hold my hand.
Life is a loveless tale
for a ship without a sail.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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A Ship Without A Sail 1929
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
© 1929 by Williamson Music and The Estate of Lorenz Hart
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from "Heads Up!"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 23 August 2007 at 10.23pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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