Lyr Req: sailor boy

Subject: sailor boy
From: GUEST,tim
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 03:14 PM

Does anyone happen to have the lyrics to "Sailor Boy" as sung by Triona ni Wots´ername on the Bothy Band´s album "Out of the Wind into the Sun"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: sailor boy
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 03:21 PM

this one?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: sailor boy
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 04:12 PM

I thought she was singing "A royal blue jacket" not "A round blue jacket". Hmmmm.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: sailor boy
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 04:17 PM

Karen - quite possible. I don't know the song myself - (which is why I posted a link rather then the lyrics. Not sure if it is correct tho' it certainly seems to fit the description)

But you will notice the site I linked to is based in Poland. It is quite possible that it was incorrectly or mistakenly transcribed by someone with English as a second language. [Given the number of typos I make, and English is my birth-tongue.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: sailor boy
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 04:22 PM

Not to worry, MMario. I wasn't taking it out on you!
Anyone who takes the time with those little blue clickies is all right by me!!!!

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SAILOR BOY
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 06:09 PM

Copied from http://www.minstrel.k.pl/songbook/sailorb.html with a few judicious changes.

THE SAILOR BOY

It was early, early, all in the spring
When my love Willie went to serve the king.
The night was dark and the wind blew high,
Which parted me from my sailor boy.

Oh father, father, build me a boat,
For on the ocean I mean to float,
To watch the big ships as they pass by,
For I might inquire for my sailor boy.

She had not sailed but for a week or two
When she spied a captain and all his crew.
"Oh, captain, captain, come tell me true.
Does my love Willie sail on board with you?"

"What was the colour of your Willie's hair?
What is the colour that your Willie wear?"
"A royal blue jacket and these trousers white
And it's curly-haired was my heart's delight."

"Oh, fair maid, fair maid, he is not here,
For he's lost or drowned and I am afraid,
For in yon green island as we passed by,
'Twas there we lost that fair sailor boy."

She wrung her hands and she tore her hair,
Just like the lady in a deep despair.
She called for paper and both pen and ink,
And every night she did drop her tears,
And every word she made Willie hear.

"So father, father, go dig my grave.
Go dig it long and go dig it wide.
Place marble stone at my head and feet
That the world may know that I died of grief."

[As sung by The Bothy Band on "Out Of The Wind Into The Sun."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: sailor boy
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 06:18 PM

6th verse: And every word she wrote "Willie dear".

(Not sure about the rest of that verse- I think there's two verses conflated but can't think of it just now).

Noreen