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.
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