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Folkie Frank Lyr Req: Need Lyrics For 'The Cabin Boy' (9) Lyr Req: Need Lyrics For 'The Cabin Boy' 19 Oct 20


I need some help with lyrics, please.

The song is The Cabin Boy by The Furrow Collective

It is based on this song The Little Cabin Boy, but the lyrics differ somewhat.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

They seem to throw in the occasional Scottish dialect word. This is what I've managed to transcribe:

[Verse]
It's of a lady gay
And a lady fair and bright
She’s fallen in love with a little cabin boy
And slighted Lord and Knight

[Verse]
“Will you tarry on shore with me, my boy
Will you tarry on shore with me__?”
“??? ??? ???
My mind is by the sea”

[Verse]
“Gin your love for me is great
Mine is greater still
But ye mon tae the captain gae
And spiel for his goodwill”

[Verse]
So, she’s to the captain gae
“Grant me my Will, said she
Gie to me your little cabin boy
To tarry on shore with me”

[Verse]
“And you a lady gay
And you ask me for a boy
Better it be some Lord or Knight
Your sweet body to enjoy”

[Instrumental]


[Verse]
So, she’s to her true love gane
“Oh, ??? ???”, said she
“The nearest and dearest of lovers we mon part
And sae mon you and I”

[Verse]
Young Billy is on the sea
And the waves tossed to-and-fro
Crying like a little sea bird
From east to west to go home

[Verse]
But they ??? ??? on the sea
??? ???
‘Til the gallant ship and her men were lost
And the galley were never seen more

[Verse]
It was in her garden green
On green and grassy ground
Early when her father he arose
This lady’s body he found

[Verse]
Six maids dressed all in black
And six dressed all in green
Her ??? ???
For she died for her cabin boy sae young


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