Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy

Subject: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 04 - 05:43 AM

first verse

My love he is a sailor boy and ploughs the raging sea
I know he will be true to me wherever he may be
He says when the robins nest again love I'll be true to thee
And as we stood in fond embrace these words he said to me :

Do not forget me when I'm far away
Do not forget your sailor boy upon the sea
Though seas may divide us faithful I will be
So in your prayers love remember me

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 04 - 06:49 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 10:14 AM

According to this online edition of Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920, MY LOVE HE IS A SAILOR-BOY was sung by Julia Daly.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 10:55 AM

Miss Julia Daly was an actress, singer, dancer, and writer of several songs. She is mentioned as having performed many times at the Adelphi Theatre in London between 1859, 1860 and 1870.

Among the songs she wrote and/or performed were "Riddle Cum Dinke Doo," "On the Mountain High," "My Johnny Was a Shoemaker," "I Am Not the Wild Creature I Seem," "When a Little Farm We Keep," and "My Happy Home Far O'er the Sea."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jul 04 - 09:33 AM

Another verse for this song (but no origins apart from those dug out
by Jim Dixon - thanks Jim)

Last night I dreamt my sailor boy was standing by my side
He says I have returned to claim you as my bride
Although I knew it was a dream it filled my heart with joy
For I knew I very soon would see my bonny sailor boy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 03:48 PM

The Battle of Alma witten by W D Glyde 1854 begins:

''My love he is a sailor boy...''

The date fits in nicely with Julia Daly as performer.

Anyone know the rest(or the tune?)

Subject: Lyr Add: MY LOVE HE IS A SAILEUR BOY
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:15 PM

"My Love He Is a Sailor Boy" was popular during the Civil War, and several follow-up were composed, including "My Love he Is a Zou-Zu," referring to the Zouves. Could not find any sheet music, and only this version (I don't know if it has a relationship to current versions):

Lyr. Add: MY LOVE HE IS A SAILEUR BOY

Oh my love he is a saileur, so gallient and bold,
He's as straight as a flag-staff and just nineteen years old,
For to cruise the wide world he has left his own dear,
And my heart it is a bustin because he is not here.

Oh my buzzum it is tosted just like the rollin' sea,
For fear that his affecshins don't still pint to me;
For a sweet-heart can be found in each port I am told,
Eckspecially for a young man on'y nineteen years old.

Oh, I would not a tin-smith revile or despise,
Providing no other hadn't first met my eyes;
But fifty-five years tho' bedizend with gold
Ain't equal to a saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Encore verses

In vain does his rival my true heart to assail,
And beg me my lovier no more to bewail;
Oh it ain't to grey 'airs my young 'air I'll unfold
While there's 'opes of my saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Oh my friends they have besot me by night and day,
But I tells them no viddiver with me can make way;
For first love is warm, while the second is cold,
Si I sticks to my saileur boy, on'y nineteen years old.

And if my dear husband he never shall be,
But lays a stiff corpus in the bottom of the sea;
The weeds of a vidder so dismal to behold,
I'll wear for my saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Printed by Thomas G. Doyle, Baltimore (no date, but 1860s). Spellings not changed.

There are several versions of the "Battle of Alma" in the Bodleian Collection, but none has the line "My love he is a sailor boy." Nor does the modern version by Copper and Dudley, or the older one by McGonigal. It is possible that "My Love Is a Saileur Boy" is based on an older poem.

Guest, where did you find the version by Glyde?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my love he is a sailor boy
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 07:01 AM

Only one line by Glyde in British Library Public Catalogue

Subject: Lyr Add: THE YOUNG MAN BRED A CARPENTIER
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 09:39 AM

From Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Firth c.12(217).
London: H.P. Such, Machine Printer and Publisher, 177, Union-street, Boro'., S.E.
between 1863 and 1885

THE YOUNG MAN BRED A CARPENTIER [sic]

My love he is a sailor boy gallant and bold.
He's as tall as a flag-staff, scarcely nineteen years old.
For to cruise around this wide world he has left his own dear,
And my heart it is a-bursting because he's not here.

CHORUS: For his spirit was tremendous, and fierce to behold
In a young man bred a carpentier only nineteen years old.

His parents they bound him for to be a carpentier,
But a seafaring life he did very much prefer,
For his spirit was tremendous and fierce to behold
In a young man bred a carpentier, only nineteen years old. CHORUS

My buzzum it is tossing just like the rolling sea,
For fear that his affections don't still point upon me;
For a sweetheart can be found in any port I am told,
Especially for a young man only nineteen years old. CHORUS

And it's oh for my lover I grieve and repine
For fear this young man can never be mine.
All the wealth of the Indies in silver and gold
I would give for my sailor boy, only nineteen years old. CHORUS