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Thread #69527   Message #1179717
Posted By: GUEST,emily rain
06-May-04 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: Need a seafaring love song
Subject: RE: Need a seafaring love song
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
it's in the digitrad:

"and so fare thee well, my own true love
for when i return united we will be
it's not the leaving of liverpool that grieves me
but my darling, when i think of thee"

BLOW THE WIND SOUTHERLY

blow the wind southerly southerly southerly
blow the wind south o'er the bonnie blue sea
blow the wind southerly southerly southerly
blow bonnie breeze my lover to me

they told me last night there were ships in the offing
and i hurried down to the deep rolling sea
but my eye could not see it wherever might be it
the barque that is bearing my lover to me

(with a couple extra verses by a lovelorn, teenage version of myself:)

"his hair is as dark as an evening in autumn
his eyes are the hue of the meadows in spring
and while i am yearning the seasons are turning
and soon my true love will come sailing to me"

"i would to the lord i could swim like the fishes
or fly like a gull through the high ocean spray
i'd find him and meet him, in love i would greet him
and live in his arms till the end of my days"

ALL FOR THE LOVE OF WILLY
transvestite-sailor type ditty, with a twist! (not traditional) it's in the digitrad:

"she signed on a barque to work on a barque
she signed on a barque and she put out to sea
she signed on a barque and she put out to sea,
all for to search in a far country
all for the love, all for the love,
and it's all for the love of her willy-o"