jackie left on a cold dark night telling me he d be home he sailed the sea for a hundred years and left me all alone now 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 that the young man came said your jackie s gone he s lost in the rain and i ran to the beach and laid me down you re all wrong i said as they stared to the sand that man knows the sea like the back of his hand he ll be back sometime laughing at you 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 shores these long years and i ll walk the sea forevermore till i find my jackie oh jackie oh jackie oh jackie oh jackie oh