Mona - Mike Batt

I have spent some heavy nights\nlike every sailor\nand I know some seedy ways to spend my pay.\nI’ve been arrested in the streets\nI’ve been drunk along the beaches of Marseilles.\nAnd you know that when I left\nI said I loved you\nBut you think I’ve got a girl in every town\nWhen the hidden harbour whores\nWhisper softly from their doors\nI turn them down.\nMona\nwill you help me to unload my contraband?\nI’ve been saving it for you.\nI’ve ignored the crimson daughters on the quays of Amsterdam\nAnd that’s not an easy thing to do.\nI keep away from the girls in San Francisco\n'cause I know my self-control won’t last for long\nAnd a man could lose his head\nWith a little help from the hookers of Hong Kong.\nAnd as I sail across these endless oceans\nI think of you each mile along the way\nAnd I tell myself this boat I am sailing on Will bring me back one day.\nMona\nwill you help me to unload my contraband?\nI’ve been saving it for you.\nI’ve ignored the crimson daughters on the quays of Amsterdam\nAnd that’s not an easy thing to do.