Emma, Emma
Oh Emma I know you’re a strong one
Oh Emma I know you’re a strong one
Oh Emma I know you’re a strong one
Oh Emma I know you’re a strong one
Your gaze is like the blazing sun
You watch me till my work is done
But you avoid me like I was a loaded gun
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Oh Emma, oh Emma
Won’t you come dancing with me please darling, won’t you come dancing please
Won’t you come dancing with me please darling, won’t you come dancing please
Won’t you come dancing with me please darling, won’t you come dancing please
Please darling, please darling, please darling, please, please, please
You’re like a ship in the harbour
Waiting for the high seas.
We could be out there darling
We're taking our ease, we're taking our ease
I know you can whirl like a dervish
I know you can turn like a wild fish
I know you can dance like the Irish
So now I have only one wish
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody love you I know
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody loves you but you don’t care for love
Everybody love you I know
Oh Emma, oh Emma, oh Emma, oh Emma,
Winter seems too long when I see that May snow
I've been watching the wind bend my window,
When I hear the sound of that ships horn blow,
I want to pack my bag, I want to go.
This scab of tarmac and the chocolate peat
Will turn to water under my feet,
And the whole Atlantic it will rock me to sleep
Rock me, rock me, rock me to sleep
Take me to America, or Indonesia,
Over to Jamaica, down, oh, to Africa.
I don't mind where you take me,
Take me where my skin turns brown.
Take me 'cos this cold, cold winter,
It's getting me down
I've been watching the birds leave with the weather,
They're not so stupid, they're pretty clever
To go where it's hot, warm every feather
But I, I could never,
Stay away, oh for ever
I'd have to come on home
To where my friends keep me together
Keep together, together, keep me together
Take me to America, or Indonesia,
Over to Jamaica, down, oh, to Africa
I don't mind where you take me,
Take me where my skin turns brown
Take me 'cos this cold, cold winter,
It's getting me down
The East is so cold, the West so wet,
This island's like a stone inside me that no wind can upset
Sometimes that stone can get too heavy,
Then I take that wind to the land of cheap bevy
Drink myself mad on the fruit of the vine,
But I have to come home to where my roots are entwined
That rock and that wind, they fight like old friends,
They'll keep on fighting 'till I reach my end
