Sweet Dublin Bay
I am a young sailor, my story is sad
Though once I was carefree and a brave sailor lad
I courted a lassie by night and by day
Oh but now she has left me
And sailed far away
Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in
And in the top riggin' I would there build my next
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast
Or if I was a scholar and could handle the pe
Once secret love letter to my true love I'd sen
And tell of my sorrow, my grief and my pai
Since she's gone and left m
In yon flowery glen
I sailed o'er the ocean, my fortune to see
Though I missed her caress and her kiss on my chee
I returned and I told her my love was still war
but she turned away lightl
And great was her scorn
I offered to take her to Donnybrook Fai
And to buy her fine ribbons to tie up her hai
I offered to marry and to stay by her sid
But she says in the mornin
She sails with the tide
My parents, they chide me, oh they will not agre
Saying that me and my false love, married should never b
Oh let them deprive me, or let them do what they wil
While there's breath in my bod
She's the one I love still.
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