My Ship

by Nina Simone

From the album: Forbidden Fruit

Track 18 of 21 on Forbidden Fruit (1961).

Duration: 3:34

Forbidden Fruit cover art

Lyrics for My Ship

My ship has sails that are made of silk There's a paradise in the hold My ship's aglow with a million pearls And rubies fill each bin The sun sits high on a sapphire sky 'Til my ship comes in I can wait the years 'til it appears One fine day in one spring But the pearls and such, they won't mean much If there's missing just this thing I do not care if that day arrives My dream needs never have been If the ship I sing doesn't also bring My own true love to me If the ship I sing doesn't also bring My own true love to me

More from Forbidden Fruit

  1. Rags and Old Iron
  2. No Good Man
  3. Gin House Blues
  4. I'll Look Around
  5. I Love to Love
  6. Work Song
  7. Where Can I Go Without You
  8. Just Say I Love Him
  9. Memphis in June
  10. Forbidden Fruit
  11. Porgy I Is Your Woman Now
  12. Baubles Bangles and Beads
  13. Gimme a Pigfoot
  14. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
  15. Spring Is Here
  16. Lonesome Valley
  17. Golden Earrings
  18. My Ship
  19. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
  20. Try a Little Tenderness
  21. Od Yesh Homa