Bee Gees

Released: March 30, 1969

Songwriter: Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb Barry Gibb

Producer: Colin Petersen Robert Stigwood Vince Melouney Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb Barry Gibb

[Intro]
Fourteenth of February, eighteen ninety nine
The British ship Veronica was lost without a sign
Baa baa black sheep, you haven't any wool
Captain Richardson left himself a lonely wife in Hull

[Verse 1]
Cherub, I lost a ship in the Baltic sea
I'm on an iceberg running free
Sitting, filing this berg to the shape of a ship;
Sailing my way back to your lips
One passing ship gave word that you have moved out of your old flat
You love the Vicar more then words can say
Tell him to pray that I won't melt away
And I'll see your face again

[Chorus]
Odessa, How strong am I?
Odessa, How time goes by

[Verse 2]
Treasure, you know the neighbors that live next door
They haven't got their dog anymore
Freezing, sailing around in the North Atlantic
Can't seem to leave the sea anymore
I just can't understand why you just moved to Finland
You love that Vicar more then words can say
Ask him to pray that I won't melt away
And I'll see your face again

[Chorus]
Odessa, How strong am I?
Odessa, How time goes by

[Outro]
Fourteenth of February , eighteen ninety nine
The British ship Veronica was lost without a sign

The three Gibb brothers were very close as children and spent most of their time together. Barry was born in 1946, and his twin brothers Maurice and Robin were born in 1949. Together, they went on to become one of the most popular bands of the 1970s.

The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, and functioned as a group almost continuously from 1958 to 2003, when Maurice Gibb suddenly died during a coma.

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