Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy

Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy

Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu, For I’m going around the ocean love to seek for something new. Come change your ring with me, dear girl, come change your ring with me, That it might be a token of true love while I am on the sea.

And when I’m far across the sea you’ll know not where I am. Kind letters I will write to you from every foreign land. The secrets of your mind, dear girl, are the best of my good will, So let my body be where it might my heart will be with you still.

There’s a heavy storm arising; 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 are tinkers tailors and shoemakers lie snoring fast asleep, While we poor souls on the ocean wide are plowing up the deep. Our officers commanded us and them we must obey, Expecting at 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 call for liquor merrily and we’ll spend our money free, And when our money it is all gone we will boldly go to sea.

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