MY JOLLY SAILOR BOLD

1.Upon one summer’s morning
I carefully did stray down by the Walls Wapping
Where I met sailor guy.

2.Conversin with a young lass who seem’d to be in pain
Saying, William, when you go
I fear you’ll never return again.
***My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold.

3.His hair it hangs ir ringlets
His eyes as black as coal
My happiness attend him
Wherever he may go.

4.From Tower Hill to Blackwall
I’ll wander, weep and noon all for my jolly sailor
Until he sails home.

*** My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold.

5.My father is a merchant the truth I now will tell
And in great London City
In opulence doth dwell.

6.His fortune doth exceed 300’000 gold
And he frowns upon his daughter
Who love’s a sailor bold.

7.A fig fror his riches his merchandise and gold
True love has grafted my heart
Give me my sailor bold.
*** My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold.

8.Should he return in pow’rty from o’er the ocean far
To my tender bossom
I’ll press my jolly tar.

9.My sailor is as smiling as the pleasant month of May
And often we have wandered 
Through Ratcliffe Highway.

10.Many pretty blooming 
Young girl we did behold
Reclining on the bosom of her jolly sailor bold.

*** My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold.

11.My name it is Maria a merchant’s daughter fair
And I have left my parents
And three thousand pounds a year.

12.Come all you pretty fair maids whoever you may be
Who love jolly sailor
That plows the raging sea.

13.While up aloft in storm 
From me his absence mourn
And firmly pray arrive the day he’s never more to roam.

*** My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold.2x