Yankee Clipper - Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy текст песни

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

When I am far upon the sea, you know not where I am
Kind letters I will write to you from every foreign land
The secrets of your heart, dear girl, are the best of my goodwill
So let my body be where it might, my heart shall be with you still.

There's a heavy storm a-rising, see how it gathers 'round
While we poor souls on the ocean wide are a-fighting for the crown
There is 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 is tinkers, tailors and and shoe-makers lying snoring, fast asleep
While we poor souls on the ocean wide are a-plowing through the deep
Our officer's commanding us and them we must obey
Expecting every moment for to get cast away.

But when the wars are all over, they'll be peace on every shore.
We'll return to our wives and our families and the girls that we adore
We will call for liquor merrily, we will spend our money free
And when our money it tis all gone, we will bold-ly go to sea.