In the day I sweat it out at the office with a runaway teenage dream
One day we'll leave the rat race behind in a sailing machine
Hoist the white sails on mast and stay
let the wind billow them and steer out on the rhumb line
Oh, honey, this life rips the bones from my back
It's a real drag, it's a tedious rap
We gotta get out, we can't fail
'Cause tramps like us, honey, we were born to sail!

(Yes, honey, we were!)

Oh, Tommy, let me steer, I wanna be your dear
oh, let me track our course and bearing
Just guide the tiller and feel the vibration
and let the compass guide our steering -
Together we could break this trap
We'll sail till we drop, baby we'll never go back
Oh, will you sail with me out to blue sea
'Cause honey, I'm just a scared as a girl can be
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know when the wind blows wild
Babe I want to go to the oceans for real !

(Oh, can you sail with me?)

Beyond the archipelago those yachts
sail out in gentle wind
Sails reach for the wind and skippers steer
And the deckhands adjust them in
The islands, they rise bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna sail with you Tommy at the sea tonight
In an everlasting kiss

One, two, three, four!

The fairway's jammed with yachts small and big on tailwind spinnaker run!
Everybody's out on the sail today and tacking there is no fun!
Together, Tommy we can live through this sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh, Someday, boy, I don't know when
We'll head to the paradise islands
where we really wanna go
And we'll sail in the sun
But till then tramps like us
Honey, we were born to sail!

Oh honey, tramps like us
Baby we were born to sail!

Come on with me, tramps like us
Honey, we were born to sail!