Where Is My Sailor Boy

Where Is My Sailor Boy - The Stanley Brothers

Oh where is my sailor boy

Oh where is my sailor boy

He sleeps in the bottom of the deep blue sea

And can't come back to me

I stand on the beach alone and gaze at the misty blue

Deep sea ere you hold him to your breast

Does he mention my name to you

Oh what does the deep sea say

Oh what does the deep sea say

It moans it groans

Oh it splashes and foams

And rolls on it's weary way

Oh please tell me deep blue sea

Is he sleeping peacefully

The winds from the north are blowing icy cold

Please keep him warm for me

If only my dreaming soul

Some token or sign could find

If only the waves would show me where he sleeps

I would leave this world behind

Oh what does the deep sea say

Oh what does the deep sea say

It moans it groans oh it splashes and foams

And rolls on it's weary way

A beautiful rose one day

I placed on the crest of a wave

I said take it please and let it set upon

Above his watery grave

As it would I watched in vain

My rose never came back again

So wave take another message to my love

Saying I'll meet him above

Oh what does the deep sea say

Oh what does the deep sea say

It guards it holds true lovers

And sleeps and rolls on it's weary way