FULL FATHOM FIVE

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them - ding-dong, bell.

Words by William Shakespeare (1611, from "The Tempest")
Music by Pete Seeger and students of Woodstock School (1954)
(C) 1962, 1963 (renewed) by Fall River Music Inc.