CHESEAPEAKE GOLD

Bill Desler



1. Setting out to sea in the big white boat

We've gone each week for years

Setting out in style from Baltimore

Past the old wooden piers.



Chorus:

Sail on small wooden boats,

Diggin' for Cheseapeake Gold,

Sail on big white boat,

The one they say is to old...



2. Past Fells Point and Federal Hill

To the ocean we will go

Pausing at the bridge at Sparrow's Point

To watch the barges tow

3. On the upper deck in the morning sun

Playing cards to past the time

Chasing all the young folks first time out

From the place that has always been mine.



4. Dancing to a tune by a band I know

From summertime trips before

Waltzing in the arms of a girl I've met

Across the old wooden floor.





Written about the Cheseapeake pleasure boats that were going

to be discontinued. Have since been rescued. Recorded by

Bill Destler as part of Rock Creek on their tape.



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