We have this song in our Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, but I find our transcription of the song very hard to read. Here's my modification of the version from Gordon Bok's Website that Maeve linked to above.

DARK OLD WATERS (Gordon Bok) Sung with a leader and chorus; the chorus lines are in italics Don't be thinking of me, All away and alone, On the rolling old sea, On the foreign ground, For I laid your keel and that's dandy for me On the dark old waters, all alone. Where you go, go well, and a fair wind home. Don't be thinking of me... on the rolling old sea... For I raised your frame and that's bully for me... And where will you go... with your rail dipping low?... And where you may wander there's none can know... Don't be thinking of me... on the rolling old sea,... For I hung your canvas and sent you to sea... And where will you be... when the winter comes nigh?... And where will you be when I'm thinking of thee?... And how stands the wind?... Will he come as a friend... And keep you from dangers that lie off the land?... And how stand the stars... in the whispering dawn?... May they guide you and bless you and the seas sail you on On the dark old waters, all alone. Where you go, go well, and a fair wind home. …Oh hey, oh ho, heave an oar and go Oh where will you bide... at the end of your ride,... And who'll sing you songs when I'm not at your side? On the dark old waters, all alone. Where you go, go well, and a fair wind home. …Oh hey, oh ho, heave an oar and go …Oh hey, oh ho, heave an oar and go Dark Old Waters is recorded on the Bok, Muir, and Trickett albums First Fifteen Years Vol. II and Water Over Stone and is also in the songbook One to Sing, One to Haul ©1992 Gordon Bok, BMI Notes from Bok: I wrote this for the film documentary of the short life of the schooner John F Leavitt, by the Atlantic Film Company. It's two ways of looking at the birth of a sailing vessel.

DARK OLD WATERS (Digital Tradition) (Gordon Bok) Don't be thinking of me, All away and alone, On the rolling old sea, On the foreign ground, For I laid your keel and that's dandy for me, On the dark old waters, All alone. Where you go, go well, And a fair wind home. (Similarly:) Don't be thinking of me On the rolling old sea, For I raised your frame and that's bully for me... And where will you go With your rail dipping low? And where you may wander there's none can know... Don't be thinking of me On the rolling old sea, For I hung your canvas and sent you to sea... And where will you be When the winter comes nigh? And where will you be when I'm thinking of thee? And how stands the wind? Will he come as a friend And keep you from dangers that lie off the land? And how stand the stars In the whispering dark? May they guide you and bless you and the seas you sail on Oh, where will you bide At the end of your ride, And who'll sing you songs when I'm not at your side? Copyright Gordon Bok Note: Written for a film documentary of the schooner John F. Leavitt. Recorded by Bok, Muir, Trickett, Folk-Legacy FSI-80 @ship filename[ DARKOLD RG