From the sheet music at The Maine Music Box:


I LOVE TO BE A SAILOR
Written, composed and sung by Harry Lauder
New York: T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1916.

1. I think I love a lassie; they say all sailors do.
I've courted her for forty years, or maybe forty-two.
There's no mistake about it, but she is a dear wee dear,
And ev'ry time I sail away, I whisper in her ear:

CHORUS: I love to be a sailor, a sailor, a sailor.
I love to sail upon the ocean blue, yes, I do-oo-oo.
I love to be a sailor, a sailor, a sailor,
Sailing on the good ship Kangaroo.

2. I've been to Tobermory, I've been to Mexico,
I've been to Honolulu, and I've been to Jericho,
And ev'ry time I've sail'd away across the ocean deep,
I've sat up in my bunk at nicht and sung out in my sleep:

3. They say that ev'ry sailor has a wife in ev'ry port.
That's a lie, because he has got nothing of the sort.
If sailors have a wife in ev'ry port, well, take my tip,
That ev'ry sailor's wife has got a man on ev'ry ship.