my ship has sails that are made of silk the decks are trimmed with gold and of jam and spice there s a paradise in the hold my ship s aglow with a million pearls and rubies fill each bin the sun sits high in a sapphire sky when my ship comes in i can wait the years til it appears some fine day some spring but the pearls and such they won t mean much if there s missing just one thing i do not care if that day arrives that dream need never be if the ship i sing doesn t also bring my own true love to me