Nine Winters

Verse 1

Snow on the moor and a wind from the sea

I counted nine winters alone

My brothers rowed off in the grey

Left me the hall and the stone

Pre-Chorus

I kept the fire

I kept the oath

I sharpened iron

For you both

Chorus

Call me back to the longship

Call me back to the foam

Call me back to the longship

North is calling me home

Verse 2

They brought me word on a raven's wing

Your ship went down in the strait

I hammered the gate shut against the spring

And I taught myself to hate

(Teach yourself to hate)

Chorus

Call me back to the longship

Call me back to the foam

Call me back to the longship

North is calling me home

Verse 3

Now a stranger speaks in a southern tongue

Fast and loud and wrong

He says the sea has already won

He says my blood is gone

(Blood is gone)

Bridge

Rise

Rise

Row

Row

Chorus

Call me back to the longship

Call me back to the foam

Call me back to the longship

North is calling me home

Call me back

(Call me back)

Call me back

(Call me back)

Outro

Row