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Title
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Disconsolate lover
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Singer
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Sawyer, David [Phoebus]
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
The captain cries - 'All hands, and away tomorrow,
Dry up your heavy tears, I must go from you.
Dry up your heavy tears, and leave your weeping,
How happy we shall be at our next meeting.'
Verse 2
'How can you go abroad to fight a stranger?
You had better stay at home here, out of danger;
I'll roll you in my arms, my dearest jewel,
So stay at home with me, and don't be cruel.'
Verse 3
Down on the ground she fell, like one a-dying,
Spreading her arms abroad, sifing and crying.
'There's no believing man - not my own brother!
So girls, if you can love, love one another.'
Verse 4
'Oh mother, don't weep for me, for I am going,
The lad I loved so dear has been my ruin.
He has courted me awhile, just to deceive me,
Now my poor heart is won, he's going to leave me.'
