LYRICS
As I rolled out one May morning down by the riverside
There I beheld my lovely fair, oh then to be my bride
Oh then to be my bride, my boys, and the chambers to behold
May the heavens above protect my love, for a jolly sailor bold
I'll give my love a gallant ship, a ship of noble fame
With a hundred and seventy sailor boys to box about the main
To box about the main, my boys, with neither fear nor doubt
But with my true love in that gallant ship, i was sadly tossed about
The anchor and the cable went overboard that day
The mainmast and the rigging lay a-buried in the sea
It was tempest sent bad weather and the raging of the sea
I never never had but one true love, and he was drowned at sea
Said the father to his daughter, " What makes you so lament?
For there is a lad in our town who will make your heart content "
“There is not a lad in our town, neither lord nor duke, " said she
“Since the raging seas and stormy winds parted my love and me "
No hankerchief shall bind my head, no comb go through my hair
No fireside bright and nor candle light shall view my beauty fair
Oh and neither shall I marry until the day I die
Since the raging seas and stormy winds parted my love and I "