A Sailor's Life Lyrics
A Sailor's Life - A.L. Lloyd
A sailor's life is a merry life
They rob young girls of their hearts' delight
Leaving them behind to sigh and mourn
They never know when they will return
Here's four-and-twenty all in a row
My sweetheart cuts the brightest show
He's proper tall genteel withal
And if i don't have him she said i'll have none at all
Oh father fetch me a little boat
That i might on the ocean float
And every queen's ship that we pass by
We'll make enquire for my sailor boy
We hadn't sailed long upon the deep
Before a queen's we chanced to meet
You sailors all come tell me true
Does my sweet william sail among your crew
Oh no fair lady he isn't here
For he is drownded we greatly fear
On yon green island as we passed by
There we lost sight of your sailor boy
She wrung her hands and she tore her hair
Much like a woman in great despair
Her little boat 'gainst a rock did run
How can i live now my william is gone