UNTO EAST INDIES WE WERE BOUND (THE)
Soumis par admin le sam, 03/20/2010 - 20:35
Rhythm: song
Key: D
Meter: 6/8
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
Words:
Unto the East Indies we were bound our gallant ship to steer,
And all the time that we sailed on, I thought on my Polly dear:
'Tis pressed I was from my truelove the girl whom I adore.
And sent unto the raging seas where stormy billows roar.
Our captain being a valiant man upon the deck did stand,
With a full reward of fifty pounds to the first that should spy land:
Then up aloft two boatmen go unto the maintop so high--
An hour is past, and then at last--"'Tis land, 'tis land!" they cry.
Key: D
Meter: 6/8
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
Words:
Unto the East Indies we were bound our gallant ship to steer,
And all the time that we sailed on, I thought on my Polly dear:
'Tis pressed I was from my truelove the girl whom I adore.
And sent unto the raging seas where stormy billows roar.
Our captain being a valiant man upon the deck did stand,
With a full reward of fifty pounds to the first that should spy land:
Then up aloft two boatmen go unto the maintop so high--
An hour is past, and then at last--"'Tis land, 'tis land!" they cry.
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