The Band Played Sweet Marie

作詞 : Reg Meuross

作曲 : Reg Meuross

I bought my love a violin so he could play for me

I bought my love a violin to calm the waves of the stormy sea

Though he’d be gone the longest time he’d return again to me

And every note my darling played

Took further away my love from me

My name’s Maria Robinson he called me Sweet Marie

And that’s the song that all night long my darling boy would play to me

All through that long remembered night I heard that melody

And the notes he played while the few were saved

Took further away my love from me

That ship went down to the mournful sound of my sweetheart’s violin

With no safety vest he strapped to his chest the case he’d placed it gently in

And the icy water froze his breath but it never froze his heart

By the song he played a pact was made my love and I would never part

I bought my love a violin so he could play for me

I bought my love a violin to calm the waves of a stormy sea

There are those who say Wallace Hartley played ‘Nearer my God to thee’

But our souls were bound as that great ship went down

And in my heart the band played ‘Sweet Marie’

In my heart the band played ‘Sweet Marie’