The Hollies

When The Ship Comes In

(Bob Dylan)

Track 1 on album 'Hollies Sing Dylan' May 1969



Oh the time will come up

When the winds will stop

And the breeze will cease to be a breezin

Like the stillness in the wind

For the hurricane begins

The hour when the ship comes in



Oh the seas will split

And the ship will hit

And the shoreline sands will be shaken

Then the tide will sound and the wind will pound

And the morning will be breakin



Oh the fishes will laugh

As they swim out of the path

And the seagulls they'll be smilin

And the rocks on the sand

Will proudly stand

The hour that the ship comes in



And the words they use

For to get the ship confused

Will not be understood as they are spoken

For the chains of the sea

Will have busted in the night

And be buried at the bottom of the ocean



verse 2



A song will lift as the main sail shifts

And the boat drifts onto the shoreline

And the sun will respect every face on the deck

The hour when the ship comes in

Then the sands will roll out a carpet of gold

For your weary toes to be a touchin

And the ships wise men will remind you once again

That the whole wide world is watchin