Sejltur_files/Safir Sangbog.pdf - Dansk Safirklub

We're bound for South Australia.
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Johnny Todd
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Johnny Todd he took a notion
for to cross the ocean wide
and he left his true love behind him
weeping on the Liverpool tide.
There she wept and was so sorry
for a week she wrought her hands
till she met with another seaman
walking on the Liverpool sands.
Oh fair maid - why are you weeping
for your Johnny gone to sea
if you'll wed me tomorrow ev'ning
I will kind and constant be.
I will buy you sheets and blankets
I'll buy you a wedding ring
you shall have a golden cradle
for to rock your baby in.
Johnny Todd came home from sailing
sailing on the ocean wide
and he found that his fair but false one
was another seaman's bride.
So you men - who go out sailing
for to fight the foreign foe
never leave your true love like Johnny
- marry her before you go..
I'll tell me ma
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I'll tell me ma, when I go home,
The boys won't leave the girls alone.
They pull my hair, they stole my comb
And that's all-right till i go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty
Shes the belle of Belfast city,
She is courtin', one, two, three,
Please won't you tell me who is she
Albert Mooney says he loves her
All the boys are fighting for her.
They rap at the door
and they ring at the bell,
Saying "Oh, my true-love are you well "
Out she comes as white as snow,
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,
Old Jenny Murphy says she'll die.
If she doesn't get the fellow
with the roving eye.
Let the wind and the rain
and the hail blow high
And the snow come shovelling from the sky.
She's as nice as apple pie
And she'll get her own lad, by and by.