Portland Waltz

An apartment on
High Street
Looking down on
The diner
And a back porch round table
Where we kept our sweaters on
And I’d ride down
To Commercial
To the Casco Bay Ferry
To the Peaks Island kithen
‘Til the tourists
Had all gone

Bobby and Ferrino
Took the Nor’easter up
Took a trip to
Old Orchard
Put tequila
In our cups
And on the
Old Orchard Pier
Got the sun on our bones
It was only a moment
But I miss my Maine home

Got a fisherman’s heart
And a stirred-up
Chowder life
But Maine
I still love you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Everyone’s so crazy
About the other side
But Maine
I still love you
Goodbye

We had crazies
On the first floor
We had more
On the third one
We had friends up
From the city
From the island
From the north
Jim Lincoln lived up
By the big Freeport Indian
Me and Tara
Lived in Portland
We don’t live there anymore

A cold Shipyard Ex
On a cold
Summer night
Maine I still love you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Everyone’s so crazy
About the other side
But Maine I still love you
Goodbye
Goodbye

I’ve been dropping my R’s
Under the stars
At night
Maine
I still love you
Goodbye

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