From Andyroberts

Wreckers Prayer Videos

Ustream Jan 27, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2w2s_zd7gg

Walthamstow Folk Club Mar 2, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htLn7HkXPlc

4 Seasons Folk Club Feb 23, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LlzUSRz36Q

Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2005921

Ustream Aug 7, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyMPpAPW-s

Ustream Aug 18, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITlQu9VuMQ4

Podcast 20 Nov 24, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfw8VTNV7Q

Havering Folk Club Oct 22, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6cUXgPuOCM

Havering Folk Club Nov 25, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkDX2LK-hsQ

The Wreckers Prayer – Lyrics

“Oh Lord, please don’t let there be shipwrecks,
Let the lighthouse shine out bright and clear.
But if there needs to be an accident at sea,
Please let that ship be wrecked here.

There’s a path all the way from the clifftop
to the rocks and the sea down below
It’s steep and it’s loose and it’s slippery
You gotta mind how you go.

On a moonless night, you'd need a little light
We don’t want any accidents, you see.

Don’t let there be shipwrecks
Lighthouse shine out bright and clear
If there needs to be a tragedy at sea
then let the cargo be washed ashore here

Oh the living is hard down this way
the soil is all stoney and poor
We don’t have a port, no fish to be caught
There’s just what the tide brings ashore
And the duty free liquor in store.

Next time it happens, don’t let me be late
or too much salt water infiltrate

Please don’t let there be shipwrecks,
Let the lighthouse shine out bright and clear.
If there needs to be a tragedy at sea,
Let the next one be here.

- Andy Roberts 2003

Read more: http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/01/23/the-wreckers-prayer#ixzz1IwFOrVju