Oh Pin Mill Song Lyrics (you once were my home) words Len Dee music trad Capo 5th.
Tune of The Ash Grove. The song is a nostalgic look back at a place I used to sail from in East Anglia. Len.
Beneath the blue skies and down by tidal waters
And way past the greyness of old Ipswich town.
Between the green
valley’s, beyond the farm meadows
Lies the heaven for sailors that is known as Pin Mill
‘Twas there that
Thames Barges lie waiting for orders
And sailormen gather at the Butt and Oyster.
I oft have sailed from
there and spent many nights there
Oh Pin Mill, oh Pin Mill you once were my home.
When sailing the East coast,
around the Thames estuary
You round in past Harwich and you’re nearly there.
With Felixstowe starb’d
and Shotley afore ye
And the tide flowing with you then well would you fare.
I well can recall of the joys that I felt
then
The moment you know that you’ll soon be ashore.
And dream of a pint at the old Butt and Oyster
Oh Pin
Mill oh Pin Mill you once were my home.
There’s many a summer I spent there at anchor
Just watching the
barges as they sailed on their way.
Or ashore by the boatyards I watch the men working
Their craft is like magic, I
envy them so.
Or a drink at the bar with the sailormen resting
And hear of their tales of the sea long ago.
I cherish
these memories so deep in my heart now
Oh Pin Mill oh Pin Mill you once were my home.
I well can recall of the
joys that I felt then
The moment you know that you’ll soon be ashore.
And dream of a pint at the old Butt and
Oyster
Oh Pin Mill oh Pin Mill you once were my home.
