The Golden Vanity

The Golden Vanity - Burl Ives (伯爾·艾夫斯)/Ralph Hunt Singers

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There was a ship that sailed it

All on the Lowland Sea

And the name of our ship

Was the Golden Vanity

And we feared she would be taken

By the Spanish enemy

As she sailed in the Lowland Lowland low

As she sailed in the Lowland Sea

Then up stepped our cabin boy

And boldly outspoke he

And he said to our captain

"What would you give to me

If I would swim along side of the Spanish enemy

And sink her in the Lowland Lowland low

And sink her in the Lowland Sea"

"Oh I would give you silver

And I would give you gold

And my own fairest daughter

Your bonny bride shall be

If you will swim along side of the Spanish enemy

And sink her in the Lowland Lowland low

And sink her in the Lowland Sea"

Then the boy he made him ready

And overboard sprang he

And he swam alongside of the Spanish enemy

And with his brace and auger in her sides

He bored holes three

And he sunk her in the Lowland Lowland low

Yes he sunk her in the Lowland Sea

Then quickly he swam back

To the cheering of the crew

But the captain would not heed him

For his promise he did rue

And he scorned his poor entreatings

When loudly he did sue

And he left him in the Lowland Lowland low

He left him in the Lowland Sea

Then quickly he swam round to the port side

And up and to his messmates full bitterly he cried

"Oh messmates

Draw me up for I'm drifting with the tide

And I'm sinking in the Lowland Lowland low

I'm sinking in the Lowland Sea"

Then his messmates drew him up

But on the deck he died

And they stitched him in his hammock

Which was so fair and wide

And they lowered him overboard

And he drifted with the tide

And he sank in the Lowland Lowland low

He sank in the Lowland Sea