Come young and old and lend an ear To a love sick maiden in deep despair Her heart was light but her courage failed When her true lover went down in the Nightingale
My parents were of high degree My true love not so rich as they They sent a press gang which did not fail To press him aboard of the Nightingale
One night as I lay sleeping on my bed My true lover’s ghost appeared to me and this he said O weep yes weep but weep all avail For your true lover went down in the Nightingale
On the sixteenth day of December last The wind did blow a most horrid blast Our captain cried my dear boys be brave And prepare yourselves for a watery grave
The wind it did blow and the sea it did roll And we prayed to the Lord for to save our soul The deck stove in and the timber did fail And down to the bottom went the Nightingale
The deck stove in and the timber did fail What a dismal end to the Nightingale Go tell your parents they may bewail For the loss of your lover in the Nightingale
As I awoke in an awful fright It being the hour of twelve at night i saw his ghost standing cold and pale Just as he went down in the Nightingale
He spoke to me in lamenting cries In the Bay of Biscay my body lies To become the prey of a shark or a whale With my drownded comrades in the Nightingale
Last night as I lay sleeping on my bed My true love’s ghost he appeared to me and this he said O weep yes weep but weep all avail For your true lover was drownded in the Nightingale
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