Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 1996 HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Oh, down in Chesapeake
Catching rock around fishing creek
The soft-shell crabs play hide and seek
Down in Chesapeake.

A little past Delaware
With the salt and the sea and the Autumn air
I wish that I could take you there
A little past Delaware
Oh, let me go down, let me go down
Let me go down and stay in Chesapeake Bay

Down in Chesapeake
I sail my skip-jack twice a week
Until the damn thing sprung a leak.
Down in Chesapeake.

I’m leaving by the morning light
The wind is up and the tide is right
Oysters are gonna taste good tonight
Leaving by the morning light.
Oh, let me go down, let me go down
Let me go down and stay in Chesapeake Bay

Down the mighty Susquehanna
To the Rappahannock and the Nanticoke
Sail the Chester and the Choptank
Sing all night, we’ll fish all day
Down in Chesapeake Bay.

Oh, down in Chesapeake
The little girls they look so sweet
Smile at everyone they meet
Down in Chesapeake.

I went sailing on a starry night
The moon was yellow, her eyes were bright
We started wrong but we ended right
Sailing on a starry night.
Oh, let me go down, let me go down
Let me go down and stay in Chesapeake Bay

Oh, let me go down, let me go down
Let me go down to Baltimore
Where everybody want to be Eastern Shore
And they feed you crab till you get sore
Down, down, down in Chesapeake Bay.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Join The Jubilee CD.

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