Lyrics
The ferry's got a lantern at the stern Burning low across the water, black and wide I'm sixty-eight years old and I'm coming home To a woman I left standing on the side I wrote her forty letters, sent but two Said I'd come back when I'd earned the right Well the engine's humming something like a waltz And there's a yellow window in the night So carry me over, carry me slow Over the water to the porch light's glow It's never too late for a second chance Take my hand, love, one more dance Last ferry home, one more waltz The deckhand tips his cap and pours me tea Says the far shore's only twenty minutes out I've got my hat in both my shaking hands And a whole life's worth of sorry in my mouth So carry me over, carry me slow Over the water to the porch light's glow It's never too late for a second chance Take my hand, love, one more dance Last ferry home, one more waltz If she's asleep I'll wait out on the step If she's gone, I'll thank the light she kept But if the door swings open wide I'll walk right in and stay inside So carry me over, carry me slow Over the water to the porch light's glow It's never too late for a second chance Take my hand, love, one more dance Last ferry home, one more waltz Last ferry home One more waltz