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GUEST,bigJ Lyr Req: Unto the East Indies We Were Bound (24) Lyr Add: UNTO THE EAST INDIES WE WERE BOUND 27 Aug 08


In P.W. Joyce's book 'Old Irish Folk Music and Songs' there's a song which he calls UNTO THE EAST INDIES WE WERE BOUND (pp58-59) with just two verses as follows:-

UNTO THE EAST INDIES WE WERE BOUND

1 Unto the East Indies we were bound our gallant ship to steer,
And all the time that we sailed on, I thought on my Polly dear:
'Tis pressed I was from my true love, the girl whom I adore,
And sent unto the raging seas where stormy billows roar.

2 Our captain being a valiant man upon the deck did stand,
With a full reward of fifty pounds to the first that should spy land:
Then up aloft two boatmen go unto the mainmast high -
An hour is past, and then at last - 'Tis land, 'tis land they cry.

Has anyone got any more than that?

Thanks in advance


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