086 - Goodbye Fare-ye-well (Singurd Sternvall version)


This version of the "Goodbye Fare-ye-well" is mentioned by Stan Hugill on page 124, he says is this is a Swedish version in "Sang under Segel", and gives us one verse without chorus lines. In big effort and great luck I found this original mentioned book: Singuard Sternvall's "Sang under Segel" (1935), so now I can sing this mentioned shanty in full 5 verses length. Also, I will use the original music took from this beautiful book. The original comment to this song in "Sang under Segel" says:

"A very old gang song: sing in my time mostly as a halyard shanty".

So here we go, this version different from than previous five versions from Stan Hugill's book will be not a capstan shanty only a halyard shanty.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 124).



Goodbye Fare-ye-well (Singurd Sternvall version)



Oh, fare you well, I wish you well.
   - Good-BYE, fare you well, good-BYE, fare you well.
Oh, fare you well, my bonny young lass.
   - HooRAY, my boys, we are HOMEward bound!

                *2*
Oh, don't you hear the Old Man say:
"We are homeward bound this very day".

                *3*
We are homeward bound and I hear the sound.
So have on the windlass and make it come round.

                *4*
Our anchors aweigh and our sails they are set,
and the girls we are leaving, we leave with regret.

                *5*
She is a flash clipper packet and bound for to go,
with all boys on the towrope she cannot say no.