Written by: (Harris)

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
 See his eye as he stops one of three
 Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
 Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea

 And the music plays on
 As the bride passes by
 Caught by his spell
 And the mariner tells his tale

 Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
 To a place where nobody's been
 Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
 Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings

 And the ship sails on
 Back to the north
 Through the fog and ice
 And the albatross follows on

 The mariner kills the bird of good omen
 His shipmates cry against what he's done
 But when the fog clears, they justify him
 And make themselves a part of the crime

 Sailing on and on
 And north across the sea
 Sailing on and on
 And north 'til all is calm

 The albatross begins with its vengeance
 terrible curse, a thirst has begun
 His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner
 About his neck, the dead bird is hung

 And the curse goes on
 And on and on at sea
 And the curse goes on
 And on for them and me

 Day after day, day after day
 We stuck nor breath, nor motion
 As idle as a painted ship
 Upon a painted ocean

 Water, water everywhere
 And all the boards did shrink
 Water, water everywhere
 Nor any drop to drink

 There calls the mariner
 [bad word] a ship over the line
 But how can she sail
 With no wind in her sails and no tide?

 See, onward [bad word]  Onward she nears, out of the sun
 See, she has no crew
 She has no life, wait but here's two

 Death and she life in death
 They throw their dice for the crew
 She wins the mariner
 And he belongs to her now

 Then crew one by one
 They drop down dead, two hundred men
 She, she life in death
 She lets him live, her chosen one

 "One after one, by the star dogged moon
 Too quick for groan or sigh
 Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
 And cursed me with his eye"

 "Four times fifty living men
 And I heard nor sigh, nor groan
 With heavy thump, a lifeless lump
 They dropped down one by one"

 The curse, it lives on in their eyes
 The mariner, he wished he'd die
 Along with the sea creatures
 But they lived on so did he

 And by the light of the moon
 He prays for their beauty, not doom
 With heart he blesses them
 God's creatures, all of them too

 Then the spell starts to break
 The albatross falls from his neck
 Sinks down like lead into the sea
 Then down in [bad word] the rain

 Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
 See them stir and they start to rise
 Bodies lifted by good spirits
 None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes

 And revenge is still sought
 Penance starts again
 Cast into a trance
 And the nightmare carries on

 Now the curse is finally lifted
 And the mariner sights his home
 Spirits go from the long dead bodies
 Form their own light and the mariner's left alone

 And then a boat came sailing towards him
 It was a joy, he could not believe
 The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit
 Penance of life will fall onto him

 And the ship, it sinks
 Like lead into the sea
 And the hermit shrieves
 The mariner of his sins

 The mariner's bound to tell of his story
 To tell this tale wherever he goes
 To teach God's word by his own example
 That we must love all things that God made

 And the wedding guest's
 sad and wiser man
 And the tale goes on
 And on and on and on