Lyrics Terry Jacks

Terry Jacks

Sail Away

I asked to her name

She said it was Jane

Oh how I thought it's a beautiful name

What brings you here to sit by the sea

Someone is painting a portrait of me

And as I sit in this old wicker chair

Knitting a scarf for my sister to wear

And watching the sailboats sail in the breeze

I’m thinking of home and my good family

Sail away taking a holiday

Sail away taking a holiday

The blue in the sky was the blue in her eye

And the color of her hair was brown

And as she turned I saw was the same

The color of her face and the sun going down.

Sail away taking a holiday

Sail away taking a holiday

Sail [?] the sea

What can the sails wide and [?]

Great [?]

It’s been many years since I have been to the sea

Watching the sailboats sailing the breeze

And finding myself in an old part of town

Looking for faces that just on the ground

There she sits in that old wicker chair

Knitting a scarf for her sister to wear

I don’t think I’ll ever remember her name

But there on the wall just exactly the same.

Sail away taking a holiday

Sail away taking a holiday