The Stowaway - The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales

Once I found a stowaway

Upon my ship on Christmas Day

I was fair so I gave him a chance

«You shouldn’t be here,

What’s your tale?

I ought to throw you to the whale.»

He just smiled and said,

«Come here, let’s dance.»

He said, «Borrow or steal,

I’ll find a way

To be with my lover upon Christmas Day

And I’ll run and I’ll roam

I’ll cover the ground

This Christmas I’ll see you

I’ll be around.»

He told me 'bout his girl back home

Waiting patient, all alone

While we danced I shed a little tear

He closed his eyes, all out at sea,

I think he danced with her not me

I’ll just have to wait another year.

He said, «Borrow or steal,

I’ll find a way

To be with my lover upon Christmas Day

And I’ll run and I’ll roam

I’ll cover the ground

This Christmas I’ll see you

I’ll be around.»

I think of him now and again

I wonder how his journey ends

As I sail by on my lonesome sea

That stranger with the haunting face

Here then gone without a trace

Lying with his love, that’s where he’ll be.

«Beg, borrow or steal

I’ll find a way

To be with my lover next Christmas Day

And I’ll run and I’ll roam

I’ll cover the ground

Next Christmas I’ll see you

I’ll be around.»

«Beg, borrow or steal

I’ll find a way

To be with my lover next Christmas Day

And I’ll run and I’ll roam

I’ll cover the ground

Next Christmas I’ll see you

I’ll be around.»