Polly on the Shore

Lyrics

Come all you wild young men And a warning take by me Never to lead your single life astray And into no bad company As I myself have a-done It being in the merry month of May When I was pressed by a sea-captain On board a man-o-war I was sent Now we sailed on the ocean so wide And our bonny, bonny flag we let fly Let every man stand true to his guns For the Lord knows who must die And our captain was wounded full sore And so were the rest of his men Our main mast rigging was scattered on the deck So that we were obliged to give in And the decks were all spattered with blood And so loudly the cannons did roar; And thousands of times have I wished myself at home And all along with my Polly on the shore She's a tall and a slender girl She's a dark and a-roving eye But here am I lie a-bleeding on the deck And for her sweet sake I shall die So farewell to me parents and me friends Farethewell, my dear Polly too I never should have crossed this salt sea so wide If I had have been ruled by her I never should have crossed this salt sea so wide If I had have been ruled by her