Caroline lyrics

Caroline is on her own

Now her husband has gone away

Seems a long time ago

That early morning in early May

She watched him climb aboard and head across the sea

She misses him much more than she can say

With two children barely walking

And another on the way

Caroline is on her own

On the farm among the trees

Mind the fields, tend the yard

Work the garden on hands and knees

Her friends are good to her, her family isn't far

Monsieur Curie speaks of la Vierge Marie

But she wanders by the water

And she wonders what he sees

In the winter she hears stories

Of the men who've left the land

She longs to see it with her own eyes

She wants to know and understand

Caroline is on her own

And the pains are coming fast

And her sisters are there to help here

But they've been crying, it cannot last

She seems to break her bonds and lift beyond the room

And soar away to see him in a flash

And this journey, so newly started

Meets a journey that's come to pass

• Artist:Chris Hadfield
• Album:Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can