My mother used to sing it for us, I remember some lyrics:

Grief is a knot that is hard to untie, and love it is something that money can't buy
Sorrow and trouble is the break of my heart
Now I tell you dear comrade, it is hard for to part
I have no mother , no father, no home, I've no one to love me I am left all alone
I once had a brother and a sailor was he, but tonight he lie sleeping beneath the blue sea
But the worst of my troubles are yet for to come
For the one I love dearly, oh where has he gone
He's gone and he's left me and I 'm all alone
with no one for to love me, no one for my own

Oh grief is a knot....