Chesapeake Bay
As the sun’s sinking down into Chesapeake Bay
And the tide’s turning in for the evening
There’s a woman who wanders out along the shoreline
And looks for the last boat that’s leaving
Down the road is the town where she’s lived all her life
She’s a soft spoken fisherman’s daughter
And somewhere out there is the traveling man
Who calls to her over the water
And the Chesapeake Bay keeps her secrets
Under those slow rolling waves
What the salt and the sand never reaches
Time will carry away, carry away
Now the moon turns the harbor a silvery blue
As the old wooden ships groan and glisten
And she makes her way down to the end of the pier
Silent and straining to listen
There are nights she believes she hears Baltimore
And the voice of the man who loved her
But nobody knows why she never boards
The boats that cross over the water
And the Chesapeake Bay keeps her secrets
Under those slow rolling waves
What the salt and the sand never reaches
Time will carry away, carry away
And the crabbers sail by and the water birds fly
As free as the good Lord intended
But all some folks do is look up to the sky
While the nets of their fate go unmended
Written by Craig Bickhardt and Barry Alfonso
Copyright 2018 Almo Music, Craig Bickhardt (ASCAP) and Hayes Street Music, all rights administered by Universal Music