Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy (Bob & Jim)

Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy(Bob & Jim) - The Copper Family

Here's adieu sweet lovely Nancy

Ten thousand times adieu

I'm a-going around the ocean love

To seek for something new

Come change your ring with me dear girl

Come change your ring with me

For it might be a token of true love

While I am on the sea

When I'm far upon the sea you know

Not where I am

Kind letters I will write to you

From every foreign land

The secrets of your heart dear girl

Are the best of my good will

So let your body be where it might

My heart shall be with you still

There's a heavy storm a-rising

See how it gathers round

While we poor souls on the ocean wide

Are fighting for the crown

There's nothing to protect us love

Or to keep us from the cold

On the ocean wide where

We must bide like jolly seamen bold

There's tinkers tailors shoemakers

Lie snoring fast asleep

While we poor souls on the ocean

Wide are ploughing through the deep

Our officers commanding us

And them we must obey

Expecting every moment for

To get cast away

But when the wars are all over

There'll be peace on every shore

We'll return to our wives

And our families and the girls that we adore

We'll will call for liquor merrily

We will spend our money free

And when the money

It is all gone we'll boldly go to sea