when i was a boy i wanted to go sailing live out on the sea with harpoon i d go whaling oh to get away to sail the open waters the breakers and wind they would spell out my fate walk into my dream i dreamt i was a captain searching for a place that had never been found sailed to distant shores in all the ports and harbors i d find a place that reminds me of home now i am a man and never have i wandered somehow i let my dreams slip away but every now and then i slip into a slumber and find my way back to the ocean again