GeoffLawes, Thank you for posting "The Heart is True" by Peta Webb.
So moving. I must learn it. I wish there was a way to get the recording but I'm sure it has not been reissued. A great loss. But at least we have the youtube video.

Another reason I must come to this site more often.

I found the words on Mainly Norfolk:

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/ourshipisready.html

Peta Webb sings Our Ship is Ready

Our ship is ready to bear away
Come, comrades, o’er the stormy sea.
Her snow-white wings, they are unfurled
And soon she’ll swim in a watery world.

Chorus (after each verse):
Ah, do not forget, love; do not grieve,
For the heart is true and can’t deceive.
My heart and hand with you I’ll leave;
Fare thee well truelove and remember me.

Farewell to thee, my precious pearl,
It’s my lovely dark-haired, blue-eyed girl.
And when I’m on the stormy sea;
When you think on Ireland, remember me.

Farewell to Dublin’s hills and braes,
To Killarney’s lakes and silvery seas.
There’s many a bright, long, summer’s day
When we passed those hours of joy away.

Oh, Erin, dear, it grieves my heart
To think that I so soon must part.
And friends so ever-dear and kind
In sorrow I must leave behind.