Farewell Nancy

Farewell my lovely Nancy for I must now leave you

Unto the salt seas I am bound for to go

but let this long absence be no trouble to you

for I will return in the spring as you know

Like some pretty little sea boy

I will dress and go with you

in the deepest of dangers

I shall stand your friend

in the cold stormy weather

when the winds they are a-blowing

my love I'll be willing

to wait on you then

Your pretty little hands

cannot handle our tackle

and your pretty little feet

To our topmast can't go

and the cold stormy weather, love

you ne'er could endure

therefore lovely Nancy

to the sea do not go

Farewell my lovely Nancy

for I must now leave you

unto the salt seas I am bound for to go

but let my long absence

be no trouble to you

for I will return in the spring

as you know