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Current song lyrics
A sailor's life, it is a merry life<br />He robs young girls of their heart's delight<br />Leaving them behind to weep and mourn<br />They never know when they will return<br /><br />"Well, there's four and twenty all in a row<br />My true love he makes the finest show<br />He's proper, tall, genteel withal<br />And if I don't have him, I'll have none at all"<br />"Oh, father build for me a bonny boat<br />That on the wide ocean I may float<br />And every Queen's ship that we pass by<br />There I'll inquire for my sailor boy"<br /><br />They had not sailed long upon the deep<br />When a Queen's ship they chanced to meet<br />"You sailors all, pray tell me true<br />Does my sweet William sail among your crew?"<br /><br />"Oh no, fair maiden, he is not here<br />For he's been drownded, we greatly fear<br />On yon green island, as we passed it by<br />There we lost sight of your sailing boy"<br /><br />Well, she rung her hands and she tore her hair<br />She was like a young girl in great despair<br />And her little boat against a rock did run<br />"How can I live now? My sweet William is gone"
New song lyrics
A sailor's life, it is a merry life<br />He robs young girls of their heart's delight<br />Leaving them behind to weep and mourn<br />They never know when they will return<br /><br />"Well, there's four and twenty all in a row<br />My true love he makes the finest show<br />He's proper, tall, genteel withal<br />And if I don't have him, I'll have none at all"<br />"Oh, father build for me a bonny boat<br />That on the wide ocean I may float<br />And every Queen's ship that we pass by<br />There I'll inquire for my sailor boy"<br /><br />They had not sailed long upon the deep<br />When a Queen's ship they chanced to meet<br />"You sailors all, pray tell me true<br />Does my sweet William sail among your crew?"<br /><br />"Oh no, fair maiden, he is not here<br />For he's been drownded, we greatly fear<br />On yon green island, as we passed it by<br />There we lost sight of your sailing boy"<br /><br />Well, she rung her hands and she tore her hair<br />She was like a young girl in great despair<br />And her little boat against a rock did run<br />"How can I live now? My sweet William is gone"
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