Full Lyrics
Early one morning just as the sun was rising
I heard a maiden singin the valley below:
O don't deceive me, O nev er leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so!
1. One Friday morn when we sail and our ship not far from land,
We there did espy a fair pretty maid,
With a comb and a glass in her hand.
While the raging raging seas did roar
And the stormy wind did blow
we, jolly sailor boys, were up aloft,
And the land lubbers lying down below.
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea silver buckles on his knee,
He'll come home and marry me, bonny Bobby Shaftoe.
Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair,
combing down his his yellow hair.
He's my ain for ever mair bonny Bobby Shaftoe.
2. Up spake the Captain of our gallant ship,
who at once our peril did see,
I have married a wife in fair London town,
and this night she a widow will be.
3. Three times round went our gallant ship,
And three times round went she;
For the want of a lifeboat they all went down,
as she sunk to the bottom of the sea.
