Great Big Sea French Shore Lyrics

French Shore Lyrics

French Shore



When I was a young man

Just barely fourteen

Craving adventure and lore

I boarded a clipper

Me dad was a skipper

And sailed it along the French shore yeah

We sailed all along the French shore



What beautiful vessels

Were sailin’ back then

All bound for the north Labrador

And so for that reason

They came here that season

To sail all along the French shore yeah

To sail all along the French shore



On each ship a maiden was hired to cook

A beautiful girl to adore

So young and cavorting

All ready for courting

While sailing along the French shore yeah

While sailing along the French shore



Me too young for courting I soon did decide

To spy on the lovers on shore

I spied on a couple so loving and supple

While sailing along the French shore yeah

While sailing along the French shore

Their actions peculiar appeared to me then

But now they’re not funny no more

They were huggin’ and kissin’ 

Oh what I’d been missing 

While sailing along the French shore yeah

While sailing along the French shore



That couple has children now married I know

You see they’re not young any more

Still yet they don’t know

How I witnessed this show 

That they played all along the French shore yeah

They played all along the French shore



That ends the story of my bonny days

Wish that I could live them once more

And this much I know

I’d produce my own show

And I’d stage it along the French shore yeah

While sailing along, sailing along, while sailing along, sailing along

While sailing along the French shore



Sailing along





While sailing along that shore