Kate Bush - The Handsome Cabin Boy (2018 Remaster) Lyrics

Lyrics The Handsome Cabin Boy (2018 Remaster) - Kate Bush



It's of a pretty female
As you may understand.
Her mind being bent for rambling
Unto some foreign land,
She dressed herself in sailor's clothes,
Or so it does appear,
And she hired with a captain
To serve him for a year.
[The captain's wife she being on board,
She seemed in great joy
To think the captain had engaged
Such a handsome cabin boy,
That now and then she'd slip him a kiss,
And she'd have liked to toy,
But 'twas the captain found out the secret
Of the handsome cabin boy.]
Her cheeks they were like roses
And her hair rolled in a curl.
The sailors often smiled and said
He looked just like a girl.
But eating of the captain's biscuit
Her colour did destroy,
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell,
The handsome cabin boy.
It was in the bay of Biscay
Our gallant ship did plow.
One night among the sailors
Was a fearful flurry and row.*
They tumbled from their hammocks
For their sleep it did destroy,
And they sworn about the groaning
Of the handsome cabin boy.
"Oh doctor, dear, oh doctor,"
The cabin boy did cry.
"My time has come, I am undone,
And I will surely die."
The doctor come a-runnin'
And a-smilin' at the fun.
To think a sailor lad should have
A daughter or a son.
The sailors when they saw the joke
They all did stand and stare.
The child belonged to none of them,
They solemnly did swear.
The captain's wife, she says to him,
"My dear, I wish you joy,
For 'tis either you or me's betrayed
The handsome cabin boy!"
[Now sailors, take your tot of rum
And drink success to trade,
And likewise to the cabin boy
That was neither man nor maid.
Here's hoping the wars don't rise again
Our sailors to destroy,
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more



Writer(s): Kate Bush


Kate Bush - Remastered Pt. IV
Album Remastered Pt. IV
date of release
30-11-2018

1 Mna Na Heireann (2018 Remaster)
2 Be Kind To My Mistakes (2018 Remaster)
3 Burning Bridge (2018 Remaster)
4 Candle In the Wind (2018 Remaster)
5 Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix) [2018 Remaster]
6 December Will Be Magic Again (2018 Remaster)
7 Hounds of Love (Alternative Mix) [2018 Remaster]
8 Humming (2018 Remaster)
9 I'm Still Waiting (2018 Remaster)
10 Lord of the Reedy River (2018 Remaster)
11 My Lagan Love (2018 Remaster)
12 Ne t'enfuis pas (2018 Remaster)
13 Ran Tan Waltz (2018 Remaster)
14 Rocket Man (2018 Remaster)
15 Show a Little Devotion (2018 Remaster)
16 The Handsome Cabin Boy (2018 Remaster)
17 The Man I Love (2018 Remaster)
18 Un baiser d'enfant (2018 Remaster)
19 Under the Ivy (2018 Remaster)
20 Warm and Soothing (2018 Remaster)
21 Wuthering Heights (Remix) [2018 Remaster]
22 Lyra (2018 Remaster)
23 Experiment IV (Extended Mix) [2018 Remaster]
24 One Last Look Around the House Before We Go....... (2018 Remaster)
25 Brazil (Sam Lowry's First Dream) [2018 Remaster]
26 The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix) [2018 Remaster]
27 Walk Straight Down the Middle (2018 Remaster)
28 You Want Alchemy (2018 Remaster)
29 Sexual Healing (2018 Remaster)
30 Passing Through the Air (2018 Remaster)
31 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) [2012 Remix] [2018 Remaster]
32 Home for Christmas (2018 Remaster)




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