Letra de The Brean Lament - June Tabor

The waters they washed them ashore, ashore
And they never will sail the seas no more
We laid them along by the churchyard wall
And all in a row we buried them all
But their boots we buried below the tide
On Severn-side

The gulls they fly over so high, so high
To the sea where their bodies all safe do lie
They fly all around and loud they do call
Where all in a row we buried them all
But their boots we buried below the tide
On Severn-side

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The bodies of the drowned at sea were not buried at the church,
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But at the tideline, until the Eighteen-Seventies.
And even when accorded Christian burial, were never brought into the church itself,
But buried in the sailors' graveyard. The sea might wish to reclaim them.
Many people believed, drowned sailors returned as seagulls
And that according to Astral Law, a gull would attack an exhausted swimmer,
Who was still managing to escape his fate, out of sheer envy of the living.
On many Western coasts it was the practice, even in days of more Christian funerals,
To bury the boots of the dead on the tideline.

The waters they washed them ashore, ashore
And they never will sail the seas no more
We laid them along by the churchyard wall
And all in a row we buried them all
But their boots we buried below the tide
On Severn-side