Lyrics Just as the Tide Was Flowing - Eliza Carthy

One morning in the month of June
Down by a rolling river
There a jolly sailor chanced to stray
There he beheld some lover
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were brown
Her hair in ringlets hanging down
Her lovely brow without a frown
Just as the tide was flowing

My pretty maid, to her he said
How come you here so early
My heart by you it is betrayed
And I might love you dearly
I am a sailor come from sea
If you will accept my company
For to walk and view the fishes play
Just as the tide was flowing

No more did stay, but on the way
They both did gang together
The small birds sing, the lambs did play
And pleasant was the weather
They being weary both sat down
Beneath the trees with the branches 'round
And what they said will never be known
Just as the tide was flowing

Upon the grass she then did roll
Her colour it ran changing
This pretty maid called out alas
Don't let your mind be ranging
She gave him twenty pounds in store
Saying, meet me when you will there's more
For a jolly sailor I adore
Just as the tide was flowing

So they kissed, shook hands and when they part
Jack Tar drank rum and brandy
And to keep his shipmates in good cheer
The lady's gold came handy
Then with some other young girl you'll go
To the public bar where the brandy flows
Give me the lad that will do so
Just as the tide was flowing