O My Chesapeake

When I was a young man I released my feet
And they carried me strong across the trouble I’d meet
When without peace, when weary the most
They’d head for the east and I’d sleep on the coast
When the summer’s wrap come and knock on my door
See my friends and their pipes sit upon my porch
A love was the highway, a light was the bridge
I got high in a way that I haven’t got since
O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake
Forget all the things my soul does seek
The boy needs no dinner when the tobacco is sweet
I’ll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake
We ran down our nights in rundown hotels
With balcony cries and bottles and bells
To abandoned weeks, to hangover days
To not quit tomorrow what we could quit today
O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake
Forget all the things my soul does seek
I guess the moment is best when the moment is brief
I’ll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake
And now every summer I hear no call
Even my friends are not lawyers, they don’t work at all
You can call that man History, who lives in the past
Can you blame him for askin' for somethin' to last?
O' my Chesapeake, o' my Chesapeake
Forget all the things my soul does seek
Another Sunday dead, another needless week
I’ll sleep tonight upon the Chesapeake