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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"