A Life on the Ocean Wave, a home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave and the winds their revels keep

Like an eagle caged I pine on this dull unchanging shore,
Oh give me the flashing brine, the spray and the tempest's roar.

Once more on the deck I stand of my own swift gliding craft
Set sail farewell to the land, the gale follows fair abaft

We shoot through the sparkling foam like an ocean bird set free;
Like an ocean bird, our home we'll find far out on the sea

The land is no longer in view. the clouds have begun to frown
but with a stout vessel and crew we'll say let the storm come down

And the song of our hearts shall be while the wind and waters rave
A life on the heaving sea, a home on the bounding wave.

(Listen the the Band of HM Royal Marines play it here or the Band of the United States Merchant Marine Academy play it here.)