| Lyrics: | Come all you wild young men and a warning take by me
Never lead your single life astray or into
bad company
As I myself have done, being all in the month of May
When I, as pressed by a
sea captain, a privateer to trade
To the East Indies we were bound to plunder the raging
main
And it's many the brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery grave
Ah, for
Freeport we did steer, our provisions to renew
When we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three
feet to our two
Oh, she fired across our bows, "Heave to and don't refuse
Surrender
now unto my command or else your lives you'll lose"
And our decks they were sputtered with
blood and the cannons did loudly roar
And broadside and broadside a long time we lay till we
could fight no more
And a thousand times I wished myself alone, all alone with my Polly on the
shore
She's a tall and a slender girl with a dark and a-rolling eye
And here am I,
a-bleeding on the deck and for a sweet saint must lie
Farewell, my family and my friends,
likewise my barley too
I'd never have crossed the salt sea wide if I'd have been ruled by
you
And a thousand times I saw myself again, all alone with my Polly on the shore |
