Jackie

Album: The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
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  • Jackie left on a cold, dark night
    Telling me he'd be home
    Sailed the seas for a hundred years
    Leaving me all alone
    And I've been dead for twenty years
    I've been washing the sand
    With my ghostly tears
    Searching the shores for my Jackie-oh

    I remember the day the young man came
    He said, "your Jackie's gone
    We got lost in the rain"
    And I ran to the beach
    And laid me down

    "You're all wrong", I said
    And they stared at the sand
    "That man knows that sea
    Like the back of his hand
    He'll be back some time
    laughing at you"

    And I've been waiting all this time
    For my man to come
    Take his hand in mine
    And lead me away
    To unseen shores

    I've been washing the sand
    With my salty tears
    Searching the shore
    For these long years
    And I'll walk the seas forever more
    Till I find my Jackie oh
    Till I find my Jackie oh
    Till I find my Jackie oh
    Jackie oh
    Jackie oh
    Jackie oh Writer/s: SINEAD O'CONNOR
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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