My Ship

My Ship

music by Kurt Weill (above)

lyric by Ira Gershwin (top)

My ship has sails that are made of silk--

The decks are trimmed with gold--

And of jam and spice there's a paradise in the hold.

My ship's aglow with a million pearls, and rubies fill each bin;

The sun sits high in a sapphire sky when my ship comes in.

I can wait the years till it appears--

One fine day one spring.

But the pearls and such, they won't mean much if there's missing just one thing:

I do not care if that day arrives--

That dream need never be--

If the ship I sing doesn't also bring my own true love to me--

If the ship I sing doesn't also bring

My own true love to me...