A Sailor's Life

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