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Here’s Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy Lyrics by Peter Bellamy

The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate

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[Verse 1: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
Here's adieu, sweet lovely Nancy
Ten thousand times adieu
I'm a-going around the ocean, love
To seek for something new
[Verse 2: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
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
[Verse 3: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
When I am far upon the sea
You knows not where I am
Kind letters I will write to you
From every foreign land
[Verse 4: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
The secrets of your mind, dear girl
Are thе best of my goodwill
So let my body be whеre it might
My heart is with you still
[Verse 5: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
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
[Verse 6: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
Our officer commanded us
And him we must obey
Expecting every moment
All to get cast away
[Verse 7: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
There are tinkers, tailors and shoemakers
Lie snoring in their sleep
While we poor souls on the ocean wide
Are ploughing through the deep
[Verse 8: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
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
[Verse 9: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
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
[Verse 10: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch]
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
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Peter Bellamy

Peter Bellamy

About “Here’s Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy” by Peter Bellamy

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