Ol´ Joe´s got a Boston Whaler he bought in Key Biscayne And he swears that since the day he got her She´s been nothing but a pain When the sun´s at his back and the wind´s in his face
It´s just him and the wheel He wouldn´t take a million for the way it makes him feel Boats Vessels of freedom Harbors of healing Boats Newport is where John hung his hat till he lost his wife Joan Now forty feet of sail antique is where Ol´ John calls home He watched his life pass before his eyes in the middle of a hurricane Came out alive on the other side, that´s where the other side got its name Boats Vessels of freedom Harbors of heeling
Boats Twenty years of a landlocked job was all that Tom could take Sitting at his desk alone and depressed, says, this just can´t be my fate Went home that night and told his wife you can tell all your friends It´s been real but it ain´t been fun, gonna get us one of them Boats Vessels of freedom Harbors of healing Boats Vessels of freedom Boats