Ship of the Line Songtext

You've never seen a sight like her before



My sweet darling boy

Wishes for to board her

And journey in her care to distant shores

But I would lament

If he took the order

For he's the only one I do adore



(Refrain)
And the wind blows the colors

And the tide rolls away

And soft calls the ocean

There's a ship of the line in the bay



Dear mother I pray

Though you try to warn me

It's soon that I was bound to go my way

With fortunes abroad

It's soon that I'll adorn thee

With the finest things that money can repay



Dear son if you go

Who will sow the harvest

And till the precious land that you call home

And if you were gone

There'd be no one to guard this

While on the wicked sea you're gone to roam



Refrain



Oh, you'll not be alone

When I take my leaving

And worry not for care while I'm away

For the boys of the glen

Will tend to all the reaping

They've sworn to sow the fields my going day



Oh, the call's in the air

And filling me with longing

For soon the captain orders anchor weighed

And I will depart

As the day is dawning

There's no one else that I must still persuade



Refrain (2 times)