
Lyrics
(American folk tune, Lyrics by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919)
One ship drives east and one ship drives west,
By the south-same winds that blow.
Yet the set of the sails and not the gale
The set of the sails and not the gale
Determines the way-i-aye-i-aye,
That determines the way she goes.
See also
- Subject: ships
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 6/8
- Rhythm: ties
- Scale: major
- Source: Folk Songs out of Wisconsin, Harry B. Peters, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, © 1977
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody

