My Mother Is The Ocean Sea performed by Echo Women's Choir

The Echo Women's Choir performs "My Mother is the Ocean Sea" by Wade Hemsworth, a song made famous by the McGarrigle sisters.

Performance recorded at the Echo Spring concert on Apr 29, 2018 at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto. Alan Gasser conducting and playing trombone; Becca Whitla on piano; Annabelle Chvostek on mandolin.

Recorded by Taras Petryk for SerpentOne Productions. Video footage shot by Peter Turner.

© Echo Women's Choir and serpentONE Productions, 2018

Echo gratefully acknowledges the support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

Lyrics:

"My Mother Is The Ocean Sea"
Words & Music: Wade Hemsworth
Arranged for Echo by Alan Gasser

Oh, my mother is the ocean sea,
My father is the sun;
Long time ago they made me
Before time had begun.

Chorus
Away, haul away children
One sun, one ocean.

Tide waters changing by quarters of the moon
Awash upon the shore
From a salty warm sea womb
For men, diatoms and more

Oh such a hungry slithering tangle
Of nameless ones a-suckling
Midst random death clutches
Random love nuzzling

So may sun shine on ocean sea
May we flourish by knowing
May sea mother find us
Wherever the wind’s a blowing.