So Bill, let us thank Providence – that you and I are sailors!” We knows what risks all landsmen run, from noblemen to tailors, “And very often have we heard how men are killed – and undone,īy overturns of carriages, by thieves and fires in London, My eyes – what tiles and chimney pots about their heads are flying.” While you and I, Bill, on the deck are comfortably lying, “And as for them who’re out all day on business from their houses,Īnd late at night returning home to cheer their babes and spouses, Poor creatures, how they envies us and wishes, I’ve a notion,įor our good luck, in such a storm, to be out on the ocean.”
Now lie a-quaking in their beds, for fear their roofs might fall in, “Foolhardy chaps as lives in towns, what dangers they are all in, Oh Lordy, how I pities them unhappy folks ashore now.” “A strong Nor’ Wester’s blowing Bill, hark can’t you hear it roar now? When Barney Buntline turned his quid, and says to Billy Bowline: The night came on a hurricane, the seas were mountains rolling, It is often attributed to Charles Dibden, who did publish this with other songs, and who also wrote a different song with the same title. Buffett, a Norfolk Islander sailing on the whaler Canton II in 1884. The song is also called ‘Jack Tar’s Yarn’ in the whaling Journal of R.E. Words: William Pitt (1826) Tune: Traditionalįirst published in the Universal Songster, 1826 and set to the tune ‘Miss Tickle Toby’s School’ (also used for ‘Jog Along ‘til Shearing’). Yet I’ll welcome him most gladly, whenever he returnsĪnd share with him so cheerfully the money that he earnsįor he is a loving husband, though he leads a roving lifeĪnd well I know how good it is to be a Sailor’s Wife.Īnd well she knows how good it is to be a sailor’s wife.
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Oh my heart beats fondly towards him whenever he is nigh,īut when he says “Goodbye my love, I’m off across the sea”įirst I cry for his departure, then I laugh because I’m freeįirst she cries for his departure, then she laughs because she’s free With his brow so nobly open, and his dark and kindly eye, Though, every now and then, I should like to see his face,īecause it always seems to me to beam with manly graceīecause it always seems to her to beam with manly grace Then I’ll haste to wed a sailor, and send him off to sea,įor a life of independence is the pleasant life for me, His wife can spend the dollars with a will that’s all her own That his wife can spend the dollars with a will that’s all her own
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With a purse full of money and a very easy life,įor a clever sailor husband is so seldom at his home, I have made up my mind now to be a Sailor’s wife, The words were written by Martha Ford, wife of Dr Samuel Hayward Ford, first surgeon in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Eliza’s husband was the master of the Nantucket ship Lexington on a Pacific whaling voyage (1843-56). Words: Eliza Spencer Brock (1855) Tune: TraditionalĪ whimsical look at the lives of sailors’ wives from the journal of Eliza Spencer Brock.
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