Then there's The Bolton Apprentice. Pretty much the same tune


1 Oh when I was apprenticed in Bolton Town at fourteen years of age,
    oh I never thought I would sail the seas till they paid me a living wage.

Chorus           So fare thee well my Princes Dock, and 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.

2   Now the very first voyage that I ever sailed was to California’s Golden Gate,
    And then I seemed to bid the world farewell as in Bolton Town I had to wait.

3   The work it was hard, the hours were long, as you’re cruising round the Forties again,
    and there was I still thinking of you when we were becalmed by Spain.

4    Now one of these days I’m going to pack up my bags and I’ll never go to sea no more;
    I’ll leave the dock by the Gladstone Gate and soon you’ll hear me knocking at your door.