Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd - Handsome Cabin Boy paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson Handsome Cabin Boy - Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd



It's of a pretty female as you may understand,
Her mind being bent for rambling into 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 her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy.
And now and then she slipped him a kiss, and she would have liked to toy,
But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy.
Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl,
The sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girl.
But eating all 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 plough.
One night among the sailors was a fearful flurryin' row.
They tumbled from their hammocks for their sleep it did destroy
And they swore about the groaning of the handsome cabin boy.
"Oh doctor dear, oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry,
"Me time has come, I am undone and I shall surely die."
The doctor come a-running and smiling 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 belong to none of them, they solemnly did swear.
And the captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy,
For it's either you or me has betrayed the handsome cabin boy."
So each man took his tot of rum and he drunk success to trade,
And likewise to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid.
It's hoping the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy,
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy.



Writer(s): traditional


Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd - Backup the Best of Ewan Maccoll
Album Backup the Best of Ewan Maccoll
date de sortie
23-05-2014

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2 Brother Won't You Join the Line
3 Lullabye for the Times
4 The Trooper and the Maid
5 There's Better Things to Do
6 Fitter's Son
7 Hughie Graeme
8 The Ballad of Jimmy Wilson
9 March with Us Today
10 Big Hewer
11 False Lover Won Back
12 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
13 Johnny Lad
14 Printers Trade
15 The Trafford Road Ballad
16 I Loved a Lass
17 The Banks They Are Rosy
18 Come Live with Me
19 When I Was a Young Lad
20 Hey Ho Cook and Rowe
21 Needle and Thread
22 Ballad of Springhill
23 Lord Thomas and Fair Annie
24 Exile Song
25 The Crooked Cross
26 Rosalie
27 Lifeboat Mona
28 Mormond Braes
29 Monymusk Lads
30 Fireman's Not for Me
31 No Agents Need Apply
32 Come All You Gallant Colliers
33 When I Was Young
34 Maid Gaed to the Hill
35 Aikendrum
36 Young Birds
37 The Banks of the Nile
38 Come Fill up Your Glasses
39 Shoals of Herrin
40 The Gairdener Chyld
41 Elfin King
42 Glasgow Peggy
43 The Space Girl's Song
44 Wild Goose Shany
45 South Australia
46 Paddy West
47 Whiskey Johnny
48 Blow Boys Blow
49 Haul On the Bowline
50 The Banks of Newfoundland
51 Whup Jamboree
52 Jack Tar
53 While Cruising Round Yarmouth
54 Do Me Ama
55 Row Bullies Row
56 A Hundred Years Ago
57 Old Billy Riley
58 Paddy Doyle
59 Duncan Grey
60 Tibbie Dunbar
61 I Maun Hae a Wife
62 Jumpin John
63 Rattlin Roarin' Willie
64 Hey Ca' Thro'
65 O That I Had Never Been Married
66 Ay, Waukin, O
67 Cooper O'cuddy
68 Rantin Dog, The Daddio O't
69 There's Cauld Kale in Aberdeen
70 Galloway Tam
71 Landlady, Count the Lawin
72 To Daunton Me
73 A Man's a Man for That
74 Green Grow the Rushes O
75 She's Fair and Fause
76 Handsome Cabin Boy
77 Wha'll Mow Me Now?
78 A Braw Wooer
79 What Can a Young Lassie Do Wi' an Auld Man
80 Dusty Miller
81 Deil's Awa' Wi' the Exciseman
82 I Hae a Wife O' My Ain



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