The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111698   Message #3082674
Posted By: bill\sables
26-Jan-11 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Pleasant and Delightful
Subject: RE: Origin: Pleasant and Delightful
There was a last verse sung in the Durham area in the 60's

Now as Willie was a sailing to his own hearts content.
His ship struck a reef and to the bottom she went.
This left poor Nancy all alone in her sorrow to complain.
For the loosing of her William who died on the main.