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Here’s adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu, I’m a-going around the ocean, love, to seek for something new. Come change your ring with me, dear girl, Come change your ring with me, For it might be a token of true love while I am on the sea. When I am far upon the sea you knows not where I am. Kind letters I will write to you from every foreign land. The secrets of your mind, dear girl, Are the best of my good will, So let my body be where it might, my heart is with you still. There’s a heavy storm a-rising, see how it gather round, While we poor sailors are on the sea, are fighting for the crown. Our officers commanded us And them we must obey, Expecting every moment for to get cast away. There are tinkers, tailors and shoemakers, lie snoring in their sleep, While we poor souls on the ocean wide are ploughing through the deep. There’s nothing to defend us, love, Nor to keep us from the cold, On the ocean wide, where we must bide like jolly seamen bold. But when the wars are all over there’ll be peace on every shore, We will drink to our wives and our children and the girls that we adore. We’ll call for liquor merrily, And spend our money free, And when our money it is all gone we’ll boldly go to sea.