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Lyrics for Handsome Cabin Boy by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Handsome Cabin Boy | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 158 | | | | Lyrics: | THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY
It's of a pretty female as you will understand
Her mind
was set on rambling into a foreign land
She dressed herself in man's attire and boldly did
appear
And she engaged with a captain to serve him for a year.
The captain's lady
being on board, she seemed in great joy
To think that the captain had engaged such a handsome
cabin boy
And many's the time she cuddled and kissed, and she would have
liked to
toy
But 'twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin
boy
Her cheeks they were like roses, her hair was all a-curl
The sailors often
smiled and said, he looks just like a girl
But eating the captain's biscuit, well, her color it
did destroy
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy.
As through the
Bay of Biscay our gallant ship did plough
One night among the sailors there came an awful
row
They tumbled from their hammocks for their rest it did destroy
They complained about
the groaning of the handsome cabin boy
It's doctor, dearest doctor, the cabin boy did
cry
My time has come, I am undone, surely I must die
The doctor ran with all his might,
a-smiling at the fun
For to think a cabin boy could have a daughter or a son
Now
when the sailors heard the joke, they all began to stare
The child belongs to none of us, they
solemnly did swear
And the lady to the captain said "My dear I wish you joy
For it was
either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy."
Come all of you bold fellows and we'll
drink success to trade
And likewise to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid
And if
the wars should rise again, us sailors to destroy
Well, here's hoping for a jolly lot more like
the handsome cabin
boy.
A popular broadside ballad of shipboard
carryings-on. This
version from Louis Killen; it derives from that sung by one of
the
greatest ballad singers of all times, Jeannie Robertson of
Aberdeen.
Recorded by
John Roberts and Tony Barrand on "Mellow with Ale
from the Horn", FHR-04
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